| English poetry - 1776 - 478 pages
...she learn, 190 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...more, is fume Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, F llj And renders us in things that most concern Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and still to seek. Therefore... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 282 pages
...use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdoiri ; what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence,...And renders us in things that most concern.,-,— ._ Unpraftis'd, unprepar'd, and still to ssefc .'..•. V'.vx '.,•' Therefore from this high pitch... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...she learn, That not to know at large of things remote 191 From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime...more is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, 195 VOL. n. c And renders us in things that most concern Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and still to seek.... | |
| Marc Auguste Pictet, Charles Pictet de Rochemont, Frédéric Guillaume baron Maurice - 1798 - 420 pages
...she learn , That not to know at large of things remote From vife , obfcure and fubtle , but to know That which before us lies , in daily life , Is the prime wisdom ; what is more is fume Or emptinefs , or fond impertinence And renders us in things , that moft concern , Unpraftis'd , unprepar'd... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...she learn, 199 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...more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, I95 And renders us in things that most concern Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and still to seek. Therefore... | |
| Medicine - 1804 - 462 pages
...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...more, is fume Or emptiness, or fond impertinence. MILTON. SECOND HEX AD E. VOL. I. Printed and sold by T. S3 <f. SIVORDS, Printers to the Faculty of... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to knovr That which before us lies in daily life, Is the pnme wisdom ; what is more, is fume Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, And renders us in titings that most concern L1upractis'd, unprepar'd, and still to seek. VOL.iI. F Therefore from this... | |
| John Aikin - 1808 - 588 pages
...observation, — " That not to know at large of things remote From use obscure and subtile ; but to know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom." ln;Mary]ione-fieUs, Mr. William Joachim, of Pratt-place, Camden Town. He had been to visit Mr. Moss,... | |
| Robert Gray - Dreams - 1808 - 170 pages
...riencc, she learn That not to know at large of thiugs remote From nse, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life. Is the prime...impertinence , And renders us in things that most concern, Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and still to seek *." . Dreams are considered in Scripture as -the vainest... | |
| Robert Gray - Dreams - 1808 - 362 pages
...not to know at large of things remote Tram we, obtcve and subtle, bat lo k»ow "1 hat which before as lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom, what is more...impertinence. And renders us in things that most concern, Unpractb'd, unprepar'd, and atill to seek *." Dreams are considered hi Scripture as the vainest of... | |
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