 | David Bristow Baker - 1831 - 244 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... | |
 | Hannah More - 1832 - 564 str.
...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 year, J808,... | |
 | Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - 1833 - 64 str.
...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 knowledge... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1833 - 892 str.
...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 most concern,... | |
 | Thomas Smith Grimké - 1835 - 52 str.
...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 your... | |
 | Hannah More - 1835 - 604 str.
...AND MORALS. For not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, hut lo know Thai which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom. — Milton. PREFACE. WHEN I quitted home on a little excursion in the spring of this present year, 1808, a thought... | |
 | Charles Whitehead - 1835 - 308 str.
...more ample range — I desired a more extended field. I thought with the immortal Milton that •• That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom." . Misty in the Parish School . and, for my part, I had no idea of a thing lying before me without stooping... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 514 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,... | |
 | 1836 - 378 str.
...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 knowledge... | |
 | 1836 - 558 str.
...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 most concern,... | |
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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... 
