 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...  The Quarterly Review - Page 227redigeeritud poolt - 1859Full view - About this book
 | Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace - 1991 - 250 lehte
...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... | |
 | Joseph E. Duncan - 1972 - 349 lehte
...Sphere" (VIII, 80-83). Dismissing things remote, obscure, and subtle, Adam concludes that, 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 concerne... | |
 | Roger Shattuck - 1997 - 388 lehte
...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. . . . (VIII, 1B6-95) "Wandering," we already... | |
 | James W. Muller - 1999 - 200 lehte
...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 Mime, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, And renders us in things that most concern... | |
 | 粟野修司 - 1999 - 314 lehte
...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... | |
 | Ellen F. Davis - 2000 - 324 lehte
...(8:172-75) Adam accepts the correction in words that were doubtless inspired by Koheledi: ... 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... | |
 | Desiree Hellegers - 2000 - 250 lehte
...immediate concerns: 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... | |
 | Mike Sanders - 2001 - 632 lehte
...Barmby] from The New Moral World, 11 April 1835, pp. 189-90. "Not to know of things remote, but know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom." — MILTON. "For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich." — SHAKSPEARE. There is a power, did we... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 lehte
...(para. 228):" . . . 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 . . . (Bk. vm, 191-94) This association of "daily life" - so evidently continuous with Johnson's thought... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 lehte
..."Socrates the first and wisest of them all professed to know this only, that he nothing knew." — "To know that which before us lies in daily life is the prime wisdom." — Milton "Though a soul be wise, it is no shame for him to live and learn." — "How terrible is... | |
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