...more distant counties have caused it to be unfairly neglected. Tourists seldom keep in mind that — " To know that which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom ;" but value scenery as some folks value old china, for its being unattainable near home. Scenes...

...have been guided quite as much, in the composition of hig discourse, by the saw of a British sage : " 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...

...criminal, but also very miserable. Besides the common duties of our station — • • • • " and to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom" — in the discharge of which we should be exemplary and diligent; every one should have some...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...an 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...