 | Hannah More - 1835 - 604 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 and subtle, hut lo know Thai which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom. — Milton. PREFACE. WHEN... | |
 | Charles Whitehead - 1835 - 308 pages
...more ample range — I desired a more extended field. I thought with the immortal Milton that •• That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom." . Misty in the Parish School . and, for my part, I had no idea of a thing lying before me without stooping... | |
 | 1836 - 378 pages
...mind was taught by long experience to check his roving fancy, and at last to learn, That, not to know of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but...before us lies, in daily life Is the prime wisdom.* There, too, are those languages dead and living, which, whilst they give ready access to the knowledge... | |
 | 1836 - 558 pages
...vain. But apt the mind or fancy is to 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 and subtle, hut, to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom: what is, more, is fume,... | |
 | 1837 - 494 pages
...every addition or repair, yet ultimately the people have found that for the purposes of legislation, " Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom." Neither have the improvements in our institutions resulted from a recurrence to the original forms... | |
 | 1838 - 426 pages
...Sparkled with joy, hath lost its light — For ever set, in rayless, joyless night. SW THE YALENSIAN. " Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom." Milton. I HAVE often been struck while sauntering along the college yard, with the many peculiarities... | |
 | 1838 - 450 pages
...Sparkled with joy, hath lost its light — For ever set, in rayless, joyless night. SW THE YALENSIAN. " Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That whirh before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom." Milton. I HAVE often been struck while sauntering... | |
 | 1838 - 520 pages
...VíK i MECHANICS' MAGAZINE, MUSEUM, AND GAZETTE, OCTOBER 7th, 1837— MARCKSl'st, 1838. VOL. XXVIII. " To know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom." — MII.TON. LONDON: PUBLISHED FOR THE PROPRIETOR, BY WA ROBERTSON, MECHANICS' MAGAZINE OFFICE, PBTERBOROUGH-COOBT.... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1838 - 506 pages
...MECHANICS' MAGAZINE, MUSEUM, П:Г1 AND GAZETTE, OCTOBER 7th, 1837— MARCH 31st, 1838. VOL. XXVIII. • " To know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom." — MILTON. LONDON: PUBLISHED FOR THE PROPRIETOR, BY WA ROBERTSON, MECHANICS' MAGAZINE OFFICE, PETERBOROUGH-COURT.... | |
 | Charles Whitehead - 1838 - 408 pages
...for a more ample range — 1 desired a more extended field. I thought with the immortal Milton that " That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom ;" vate learning at its root, Mr. Misty, our tutor, was by no means alert at supplying us with implements,... | |
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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... 
