 | 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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...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, 195 " Or emptiness, or fond impertinence ; " And renders us, in things... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...experience taught, she learn, That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle ; r, each blushing grace, That wisdom: what is more, is fume. Or emptiness, or fond impertinence : And renders us, in things that... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...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... | |
 | William Laver - 1842 - 110 pages
...so much for man, are we not justified in showing the young mind how she produces her effects ; for " To know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom." — MILTON. QUESTIONS. 1 7. What is the definition of our present science, chemistry ? 18.... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...experience Inught, she learn, That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle ; press'd watch return'da silver sound. Belinda still her downy pil wisdom : what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence : And renders us, in tilings that... | |
 | Hints - 1843 - 344 pages
...domestic economy being, in all its ramifications, of great importance in this worky-day world of ours. " To know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom." That such wisdom was much more common among English women of the olden time than at present,... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 428 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 be ever borne in mind, that success in life is not regarded by the wise man as an... | |
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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... 
