 | Samuel Warren - 1841 - 436 pages
...strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill; our antagonist is our helper. This amicable contest with difficulty, obliges us to an intimate acquaintance...relations ; it will not suffer us to be superficial." The man whose disposition is one of sterling excellence, despite the few foibles which it may have... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1841 - 344 pages
...mind will point with confidence to the soul's great refuge. " He that wrestles with us," says Burke, "strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our...difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our subject, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial."... | |
 | Samuel Warren - English literature - 1841 - 414 pages
...than we know ourselves, as he loves us better, too. Pater ipse colendi, haudfacilem esse mam voluit. He that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves and...skill ; our antagonist is our helper. This amicable contest with difficulty, obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to... | |
 | Warren - 1842 - 824 pages
...we know ourselves, as he loves us better, too. Pater ipse coiendi, hand facilem esse viani voluit. He that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves and...skill ; our antagonist is our helper. This amicable contest with difficulty, obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to... | |
 | Robert Peel - Great Britain - 1843 - 504 pages
...than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Pater ipse colendi, haud facilem esse viam voluit. He that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves and...relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial." These are the memorable words of the first of philosophic statesmen, of the greatest orator of modern... | |
 | Charles Jean Delille - 1844 - 476 pages
...parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too He that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves and...intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels usrto consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. — BURKE. Public... | |
 | Theology - 1872 - 882 pages
...than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Pater ipse colendi hand facilem ease viom voluit. He that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves,...sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper." A. His extemporary efforts may lead a preacher to form habits of introspection ; to discipline himself... | |
 | 1844 - 858 pages
...strengthens our nerves, and sharpens oar skill : our antagonist is our helper. This tmicabic contest with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels ne to consider it in ail its relations ; it will not suffer UH to be superficial.' Those who are too... | |
 | 1844 - 878 pages
...guardian and legislator, who knotvs us better than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Ho that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill : our antagonist i our hel|KT. This amicable contest with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our... | |
 | Samuel Warren - Law - 1845 - 1174 pages
...ourselves, as he loves us better, too. Pater ipse colendi haudfacilem esse viam voluit. He that wjestles with us, strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our...relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. It is," he adds, " the want of nerves of understanding for such a task ; it is the degenerate fondness for... | |
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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It... 
