 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1817 - 420 pages
...(109 THE PROJECTOR. N° 77. " 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." MILTON. December 1807. .T OR some weeks past I have had reason to be alarmed for these my lucubrations.... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Conduct of life - 1818 - 432 pages
...should never " follow a multitude to do NUMBER XXIII. Of the necessity of learning how to use money. -" To know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime of wisdom ; what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, 01 fond impertinence." MiLTorf. THERE is one inferior... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...experience taught, she Irani, That not to know at Urge of things remote From use, obscure and subtle; but heir garments loosely waving in the wind, And all the flush of beauty in their cheeks ! Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and still to seek. Therefore from this high pitch let us descend A lower flight,... | |
 | Books - 1820 - 404 pages
...Montaigne's reflexions and writings is the philosophy of life. How to live well and die well with him Is the prime wisdom ; what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence. To achieve this, he studied himself deeply and accurately ; he dissected and anatomized his feelings,... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...taught, she learn, 190 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 ; « hat is more, is fume, O, emptiness, or fond impertinence, 195 And renders us in things that most... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...Montaigne's reflexions and writings is the philosophy of life. How to live well and die well with him Is the prime wisdom ; what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence. To achieve this, he studied himself deeply and accurately ; he dissected and anatomized his feelings,... | |
 | 492 pages
...OF r#£ ANCIENT B&ITQNS. -, .,„ ( Not commonly, or but partially noticed by general Historian*, } That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom. •" . •_.':•• ti.'j «MXpl. TUt IK JiiiLJG IOUS C EKE, MOM US. Religious Ceremonies of the aflcien.t... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...taught, she learn, 190 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...more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, 193 And renders us in things that most concern Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and still to seek. Therefore... | |
 | English literature - 1837 - 604 pages
...mentally illuminated Milton written : — " Not to know at large of things remote From use and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom." It should ever be borne in mind, that success in life is not regarded by the wise man as an end, but... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...taught, she learn, 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...concern, Unpractised, unprepared, and still to seek. Therefore from this high pitch let us descend A lower flight, and speak of things at hand Useful; whence,... | |
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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... 
