 | Hannah More - 1856 - 602 pages
...SEARCH OF A WIFE. COMPREHENDING OBSERVATIONS ON DOMESTIC HABITS AND MANNERS, RELIGION AND MORALS. For not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom.— Jfifton. PREFACE. WHIN I quitted home on a little excursion in the spring of... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 418 pages
...persons feel in seeking things that appear extraordinary and elevated above the common, forgetting that " Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...but to know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom ; what is more is fame, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, And renders us in things... | |
 | 1856 - 570 pages
...an exchange of Ignorance for that Which is another kind of Ignorance. , — Coiton. e. — . Milton. NOT to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime Wisdom ; what is more, is fume, Or Emptiness, or fond Impertinence, And renders us in... | |
 | What - 1856 - 408 pages
...— 1 Solicit not thy thoughts with matters hid ; Leave them to God above — Him serve and fear, For not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...but to know That which before us lies in daily life IB the prime wisdom.' Iharp upon the same string you see, Ethel, to you ; but this is a very learned... | |
 | 1909 - 500 pages
...rove Unchecked ; and of her roving is no end, Till, warned, or by experience taught, she learn That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom : what is more is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, And renders us in things... | |
 | W. K. C. Guthrie - 1971 - 214 pages
...Milton took the Socradc sentiments which Adam utters in PL book 8, when he agrees with Raphael That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...but to know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom; what is more is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, And renders us in things... | |
 | William Kerrigan, John Milton - 1983 - 372 pages
...to rove Uncheckt, and of her roving is no end; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, she learn That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime Wisdom; what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, And renders us in things... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...roave Uncheckt, and of her roaving is no end; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, she learn That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and suttle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime Wisdom . . . [8.188-94] Adam... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz, Schwartz Regina M. - 1988 - 160 pages
...to rove Uncheckt, and of her roving is no end; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, she learn That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime Wisdom; (VIII. 188-94) This lesson in usefulness is what many have seized on as the definitive... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 1988 - 348 pages
...comprehend, and which points out the pragmatic wisdom of being content with "useful" knowledge: Nut to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom. (PL 8.191-94.) Pope, in the Essay on Man reduced the same idea to a platitude... | |
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That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom... 
