| John Milton - 1831 - 306 páginas
...experience taught, she learn, 1DO 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 : What is more is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence : 195 And renders us, in things that... | |
| David Bristow Baker - 1831 - 244 páginas
...experience 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 the prime wisdom: what is more, is fume Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, And renders us in things that most... | |
| Hannah More - 1832 - 564 páginas
...MANNERS, RELIGION AND MORALS. For nqt to know at largo of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom.— -Miîfon. PREFACE. WHEX I quitted home on a little excursion in the spring of this present... | |
| Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - 1833 - 64 páginas
...roving fancy, and at last to learn, That, not to know of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which 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... | |
| Bela Bates Edwards - 1833 - 892 páginas
...parlorlibrary and the school-boy's satchel. Such a work would he superlatively valuable at any time. For " 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 that... | |
| Thomas Smith Grimké - 1835 - 52 páginas
...experience taught, she learns, 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 : Par. Lost, B. 8, v. 190. But the advocates of the classics will then say—What tho' we grant... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 514 páginas
...experience 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 the prime wisdom : what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence ; And renders us, in things that... | |
| 1836 - 378 páginas
...roving fancy, and at last to learn, That, not to know of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which 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... | |
| 1836 - 558 páginas
...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, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, And renders us, in things that... | |
| 1837 - 494 páginas
...the purposes of legislation, " 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." Neither have the improvements in our institutions resulted from a recurrence to the original... | |
| |