 | Law - 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 pages
...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...more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, 195 And renders us in things that most concern Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and still to seek. Therefore... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 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... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 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... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 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.... | |
 | Industrial arts - 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.... | |
 | Juvenal - 1839 - 354 pages
...; г. е. who are instructed by what they meet with in common life, and profit by daily experience. To know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom. MILTON. 23. What day, ¿fc.] Festa dies signifies a day set apart for the observance of some festival,... | |
 | Juvenal - Verse satire, Latin - 1839 - 570 pages
...of the yoke by tossing their heads about. M. cf. vi. 208, note. R. ЯасЬ. Fers. 199 eqq. Vita. " To know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom ;" Milton. M. Magittra ; Ov. Her. xv. 83. (H.) R. 23. - What day is not profaned by bringing to light... | |
 | George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...are near at hand, but is not able 19 discern things at a distance. — Addison. -Not to know at largo of things remote From use, obscure and subtle ; but...more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, And renders us, in things that most concern, Unpractised, unprepared, and still to seek. — Milton.... | |
 | Lady - Needlework - 1840 - 404 pages
...COURT: BIRMINGHAM : PRINTED BY THOMAS EVANS, COLMORE K01V. i 21..LI ' "' >. r (.''• } -: PREFACE. " But to know That which before us lies in daily life ; Is the prime wisdom." MILTON. THE Author of the following pages has been encouraged to hope, that, in placing them, after... | |
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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... 
