 | Hints - 1843 - 344 str.
...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, we have... | |
 | William Russell - 1844 - 428 str.
...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 end, but... | |
 | 1844 - 602 str.
...have been guided quite as much, in the composition of hig discourse, by the saw of a British sage : " 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 concern,... | |
 | William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 str.
...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 concern... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 str.
...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 is recognizing here the inherent, created tendency of the "Fancie" which he has... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 1988 - 348 str.
...content with "useful" knowledge: Nut 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. (PL 8.191-94.) Pope, in the Essay on Man reduced the same idea to a platitude in pointing out that... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - 1988 - 160 str.
...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; (VIII. 188-94) This lesson in usefulness is what many have seized on as the definitive statement of... | |
 | Charles Taylor - 1992 - 628 str.
...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... | |
 | Philippe Ariès, Michelle Perrot, Georges Duby - 1987 - 754 str.
...Puritan John Milton wrote: For 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.3 To know one's self and the state of one's soul was the "prime wisdom." The second major duty... | |
 | Joshua Brown - 1991 - 486 str.
...revisionist work, discussed below, cut its teeth on reviews of the Oxford History of South Africa. (iv) . . . but to know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime Wisdom (Milton, Paradise Lost) Since the mid-1960s, a "historical whirlwind" has gusted through the academic discipline... | |
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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... 
