 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...  The Works of Edmund Burke - Page 195by Edmund Burke - 1839Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1813 - 580 pages
...we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Pater ipue cotendi hand facilem este -iiain I'oluit. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and...relations- It will not suffer us to be superficial." To pass without notice the observations of this eminent lady upon the dutits of moral instruction,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1814 - 258 pages
...than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Pater ipse colendi baudfacilem esse viam voluit. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and...suffer us to be superficial. It is the want of nerves of understanding for such a task; it is the degenerate fondness for tricking short-cuts, and little... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1815 - 464 pages
...we know ourselves, as he loves us bettef too. Pater ipse colcndi hand /acilem esse viam voluit. lie that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and...suffer us to be superficial. It is the want of nerves of understanding for such a task; it is the degenerate fondness for tricking short-cuts, and little... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...that we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Pater ipse colendi haudfacilem esse viam voluit. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist. is_our_helrjer. This amicable conflictTwith difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with... | |
 | England - 1834 - 1046 pages
...than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Ipse pater colendi haudfacilem ease viam voluit. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and...suffer us to be superficial. It is the want of nerves of understanding for such a task, it is the degenerate fondness for tricking short cuts, and little... | |
 | England - 1840 - 876 pages
...we know ourselves, as he loves us better, too. Pater ipse culendi, hauti facilem esse viam 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... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 362 pages
...than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Pater ipse colendi haud facilem esse mam voluit. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Oar antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 474 pages
...impulse. . • . , ' •. X' . Fortune. — Reflections. 33 IV. " He that wrestles with us," says Burke,1 "strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. —...in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.'1 Adversity is, indeed, the quickest and most unerring of all tutors; for she instructs... | |
 | 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
...coditiers of the French National Assembly,) ' Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object,...suffer us to be superficial. It is the want of nerves of understanding for such a task, the degenerate fondness for short cuts, and little fallacious facilities,... | |
 | 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 - 854 pages
...codifiers of the French National Assembly,) ' Our antagonist is OUT helper. This amicable conflict obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in ali its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. It is the want of nerves of understanding... | |
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