 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...end ; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, she learn, That not to know at large of things remote 191 From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which...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.... | |
 | British periodicals - 1808 - 704 pages
...account. The result in this respect strongly exemplified the truth of Milton's observation : Tint, not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...but to know That which before us lies in daily life ]s the prime wisdom. At his house in High streer, Mary-lebone, in his 71st year, silcifaiiiia' Dalrymple,... | |
 | Marc Auguste Pictet, Charles Pictet de Rochemont, Frédéric Guillaume baron Maurice - 1798 - 420 pages
...experience taught, 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... | |
 | Anne Pratt - Wild flowers - 1799 - 200 pages
...the lowly flowers, which he may be most likely to find in his path, " For not to dwell at large, on things remote From use, obscure and subtle ; but to know That which before us lies, in common life, Is the chief wisdom." The scientific name of each flower is added, in order to assist... | |
 | William Hayley - 1799 - 376 pages
...experience taught, fhe learn, That not to know at large of things remote . From ufe, obfcure and fubtle, but to know That, which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wifdom; what is more is fume, Or emptinefs, or fond impertinence, And renders us in things that moft... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...rove Uncheck'd, and of her roving is no end ; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, she learn, 199 That not to know at large of things remote From use,...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... | |
 | Henry Kett - Best books - 1803 - 468 pages
...experience taught, (he learn That not to know at large of things remote From ufe, obfcure and fubtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wifdom ; what is more, is fums Or emptinefs, or fond impertinence, And renders us in things that moft... | |
 | Medicine - 1804 - 462 pages
...is to 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,...more, is fume Or emptiness, or fond impertinence. MILTON. Second Hexade. Vol. I." IN CONFORMITY to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled,... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...notions vain. But apt the mind or fancy is to rove Uncheck'd, and of her roving is no end ; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, she learn, 190 That not to...things 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,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1808 - 588 pages
...Milton's 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,... | |
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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... 
