 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 526 pages
...is to rove Uncheck'd, and of her roving is no end ; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, she learn, That not to know at large of things remote From use,...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 concern,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Charles Whitehead - Law - 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,... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...is to roave Uncheckt, and of her roaving is no end; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, she learn That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and suttle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime Wisdom . . . [8.188-94] Adam... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 160 pages
...Fancy is to rove Uncheckt, and of her roving is no end; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, she learn That not to know at large of things remote From use,...before us lies in daily life, Is the prime Wisdom; (VIII. 188-94) This lesson in usefulness is what many have seized on as the definitive statement of... | |
 | Darrel Abel - Didactic fiction, American - 1988 - 348 pages
...comprehend, and which points out the pragmatic wisdom of being content with "useful" knowledge: Nut to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom. (PL 8.191-94.) Pope, in the Essay on Man reduced the same idea to a platitude in pointing out that... | |
 | Charles Taylor - Philosophy - 1992 - 628 pages
...ideas of modern culture, an idea which was given a terse formulation by the greatest of Puritan poets: To know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom.45 But there were obviously other strands of Protestantism, such as the different Continental... | |
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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... 
