 | William Russell - 1845 - 410 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... | |
 | William Goodman - 1845 - 440 Seiten
...the Scriptures, yet are then grossly ignorant ; but he who acts well, is a truly learned man !" • " To know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom." MILTON. JUGGLERS. " The juggler, mentioned in Xenophon, requested the Gods to allow him to remain in... | |
 | William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 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... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 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; (VIII. 188-94) This lesson in usefulness is what many have seized on as the definitive statement of... | |
 | Charles Taylor - 1992 - 628 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace - 1991 - 250 Seiten
...epigraph from Book VIII. 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, (lines 191-194) Speaking here of the mind or fancy, Adam locates the local and domestic focus 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... 
