 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 Seiten
...experience Inught, she learn, That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle ; but s'd watch return'da silver sound. Belinda still her downy pillow pre : what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence : And renders us, in tilings that most... | |
 | Hints - 1843 - 344 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1843 - 420 Seiten
...something that will inculcate true virtue, and commend it as the better part to be chosen and cherished. "To know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom." Not to be left • "in things that most concern Unpractised, unprepared, and still to seek," is the... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - 1844 - 504 Seiten
...criminal, but also very miserable. Besides the common duties of our station — • • • • " and to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom" — in the discharge of which we should be exemplary and diligent; every one should have some little... | |
 | 1844 - 602 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | 1844 - 1128 Seiten
...PKESEBVING HEALTH, PROLONGING LITE, AND PROMOTING TERRESTRIAL HAPPINESS. BY FELIX WEIKES RICHARDSON. " To know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom." — MlLTO>*. THE object of thia paper is not to make our readers their own physicians, but, what is... | |
 | William Russell - 1844 - 428 Seiten
...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 - 520 Seiten
...more distant counties have caused it to be unfairly neglected. Tourists seldom keep in mind that — " To know that which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom ;" but value scenery as some folks value old china, for its being unattainable near home. Scenes that... | |
 | James Thorne - 1845 - 514 Seiten
...more distant counties have caused it to be unfairly neglected. Tourists seldom keep in mind that — " To know that which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom ;" but value scenery as some folks value old china, for its being unattainable near home. Scenes that... | |
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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... 
