 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 pages
...the man that feareth always. ENfi OF VOL. I. FOR THE CLOSET: EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR. BY WILLIAM JAY. " Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure, and BubUe, but to know That which before us lies In dally life, IB the prime wisdom. What la more is fume,... | |
 | John Milton - 1833 - 438 pages
...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, obscure...impertinence : And renders us, in things that most concern, Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and still to seek. Therefore, from this high pitch let us descend A lower... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1833 - 892 pages
...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...things that most concern, Unpractised, unprepared, and still to seek." But especially is such a work needed at the present time, when questions, involving... | |
 | Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - 1833 - 64 pages
...mind was taiight by long experience to check his roving fancy, and at last to learn, That, not to know of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but...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... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 722 pages
...'•^^¿^^^^Ш^^^^^ж^^^ (Jay) An* tf * • .c\ \ FOR THE CLOSET: FOR EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR. BY WILLIAM JAY. •• Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure, and subtle, hut to know Tbat which before »a llea In dally life. le the prime wisdom. What Is more Is fume, Emptiness,... | |
 | Charles Taylor - 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... | |
 | Philippe Ariès, Michelle Perrot, Georges Duby - 1987 - 754 pages
...essence of salvation. As that favorite poet of the Evangelicals, the Puritan John Milton wrote: For not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace - 1991 - 250 pages
...about More's relationship to the poem. These begin with her choice of an epigraph from Book VIII. For not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...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... | |
 | Joshua Brown - 1991 - 486 pages
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 pages
...experience taught, she learn 190 That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subde, but to know That which before us lies in daily life,...things that most concern Unpractised, unprepared, and still to seek. Therefore from this high pitch let us descend A lower flight, and speak of things... | |
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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... 
