 | 1861 - 214 pages
...parental guardian and instructor, who knows us better than we know ourselves, as Ho loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill : our antagonist is thus our helper." THE BATTLE OF LIFE AN UP-HILL STRUGGLE. The battle of life, in by far the greater... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves ; and He loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and...conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintanee with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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,...relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. REVOLUTIONS OF NATIONAL GRANDEUR. I doubt whether the history of mankind is yet complete enough, if... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1863 - 312 pages
...parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves ; and He loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and...relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.' CHAPTER V, EXAMPLES AND ENCOURAGEMENTS FROM THE LIVES OF MEN EMINENT FOR COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE, PHILANTHROPY,... | |
 | 1863 - 910 pages
...guardian and legislator, who knows us better than wo know ourselves; and He loves us better too. Ho that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens...helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1863 - 64 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...sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.' These are the memorable words of the first of philosophic statesmen, the illustrious Edmund Burke.... | |
 | Wise sayings - Maxims - 1864 - 394 pages
...paternal 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...relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. DISEASES. Often have I thought with myself what disease I would be best contented to die of. None please... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1864 - 400 pages
...undergo, the better adapted they become for the attainment of excellence. As Edmund Burke, said, " Difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance...relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial." This is good ; but we have something still better : it is recorded in one of Burke's biographies, that... | |
 | Bible - 1872 - 832 pages
...than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Pater ipse colendi hand facilem esse viam 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...parental Guardian and Legislator, who knous us better than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves,...relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. REVOLUTIONS OF NATIONAL GRANDEUR. I doubt whether the history of mankind is yet complete enough, if... | |
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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... 
