 | 1916 - 696 pages
...with clear insight into what is meant by scientific progress, has said : ' The light which we have gained was given us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge.' Emerson's insistence on the truth that knowledge, to... | |
 | 1952 - 708 pages
...if we look not wisely on the sun itself, it smites us into darkness. . . . The light which we have gained was given us not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge. . . . Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity... | |
 | 1909 - 378 pages
...to such a place in the firmament, where they may be seen evening or morning. The light which we have gained, was given us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge. It is not the unfrocking of a priest, the unmitering... | |
 | William K. Buckley, James Seaton - 1992 - 180 pages
...vs. America: Reassessing The Closing of the American Mind Kenneth Alan Hovey The light which we have gained, was given us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge.... They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity,... | |
 | Annabel M. Patterson, Professor Annabel Patterson - 1993 - 358 pages
...not a one-time, one-era event but essentially continuous: "The light which we have gain'd, was giv'n us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge" (2:550). "Where there is much desire to learn, there... | |
 | Richard Burt - 1994 - 420 pages
...not wisely on the Sun it self, it smites us into darknes The light which we have gain'd, was giv'n us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge. (550) Milton thus anticipates the dialectic of outer... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - 1995 - 160 pages
...to such a place in the firmament, where they may be seen evening or morning. The light which we have gained, was given us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge. (II, 550) Milton's image is clear: the light of Christian... | |
 | Gary Remer - 1996 - 336 pages
...truth as progressively revealed through rational discussion: "The light which we have gain'd, was giv'n us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge." Those who seek to suppress discussion, therefore, hinder... | |
 | Robert M. Ryan - 2004 - 312 pages
...the need and prevented the means for further reformation: The light which we have gain'd, was giv'n us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge. It is not the unfrocking of a Priest, the unmitring of... | |
 | David Norbrook - 1999 - 532 pages
...wisely on the Sun it self, it smites us into darknes . . . The light which we have gain'd, was giv'n us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge' (MPW, n, 565, 55o). Monarchists, he now declared, had... | |
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The light which we have gained, was given us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge. 
