 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...  Oeuvres completes - Side 144af François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Philomathic institution - 1824 - 522 sider
...more extensively useful, because they are more intimately connected with the business oflife. " " For not to know at large of things remote From use obscure...before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom." If it be desirable to encourage men to cultivate their minds, and to open to them the fountains of... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 580 sider
...Seek them with wand'ring thoughts, and notions vain. But apt the mind or fancy is to rove Uncheck'd, and of her roving is no end ; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, she learn, 190 That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 572 sider
...Seek them with wand'ring thoughts, and notions vain. But apt the mind or fancy is to rove Uncheck'd, and of her roving is no end ; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, she learn, 190 That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1825 - 352 sider
...the dinner, being expressly confined to the " Memoirs of a Haunch of Mutton.'" WHAT LIFE TO CHOOSE. " Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom." Paradise Lost. " WHEN I look round upon the material world," says a Pagan writer, " and observe the... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1825 - 436 sider
...the dinner, being expressly confined to the " Memoirs of a Haunch of Mutton." WHAT LIFE TO CHOOSE. " Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle ; but to know Is the prime wisdom." Paradise Z»st. That which before us lies in daily life, " WHEN I look round... | |
 | Hannah More - 1827 - 596 sider
...SEARCH OF A WIFE. COMPBtHENDINO OBSERVATIONS ON DOMESTIC HABITS AND MANNERS, RELIGION AND MORALS. Tor not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...but to know That which before us lies in daily life, í • the prime wisdom. MILTON. PREFACE. WHO I quitted home on a little excursion in the spring of... | |
 | Hannah More - 1827 - 598 sider
...OBSERVATIONS ON DOMESTIC HABITS AND MANNERS, RELIGION AND MORALS For not to know at large of tilines remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wiedom. MILTQX. PREFACE. Win x I qnittcd home ona little excursion in the spring of this present year,... | |
 | William Goodhugh - 1827 - 402 sider
...I EM: i MM Superb. Canto £tfrraries of Useful — Not to know at large of things remote From ate, obscure, and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Ts the prime wisdom : wjiat is more is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, And renders us in... | |
 | Waldegrave (fict.name.) - 1829 - 218 sider
...rather too far, was glad to compromise, and for the sake of peace conformed to her rules. CHAPTER IX. 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 that most concern. Unpractised,... | |
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