 | William Vincent Byars - Orators - 1901 - 610 pages
...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 will not suffer us to be superficial. « Epidemical Fanaticism... | |
 | Motilal M. Munshi - 1904 - 562 pages
...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 io consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer ns io be superficial. —BURKK. By woe the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1909 - 458 pages
...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 will not suffer us to be superficial. It is the want of nerves... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - Literature - 1909 - 470 pages
...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 will not suffer us to be superficial. It is the want of nerves... | |
 | Austin Dobson - Commonplace-books - 1917 - 250 pages
...' Men, Women, and Italians '. THE OTHER SIDE ' 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 will not suffer us to be superficial.' (BURKE.) This passage was... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1962 - 598 pages
...Index PAGE 547 Essays in Criticism First Series "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 will not suffer us to be superficial." — BURKE. Those critics... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1826 - 644 pages
...codifiers of the French National Assembly,) ' Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. It is the want of nerves... | |
 | James Boyd White - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1985 - 400 pages
...their original thoughts, the land marks of the human understanding itself. . . . 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 will not suffer us to be superficial" (p. 278). 7. Burke repeatedly... | |
 | Henry James - England - 1999 - 440 pages
...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 will not suffer us to be superficial.' 223. i. three acres: Rather... | |
 | John Keane - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 670 pages
...Despite his providentialism, Paine sympathized with that point. Its corollary, that an "amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations," Paine had always considered vitally important in the struggle 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... 
