 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
 | University of Glasgow, John Barras Hay - 1839 - 626 pages
...we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. ' Pater ipse colendi, haud facilem cssc 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... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Ipse pater colendi hand facilem esse mam 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... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 300 pages
...than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Ipse pater colendi hand facilem 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... | |
 | Scotland - 1840 - 1522 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... | |
 | England - 1840 - 880 pages
...than we know ourselves, as he loves us better, too. Pater ipse colendi, haud facilem esse viam valait. 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 Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 536 pages
...than we know ourselves, as he loves us better, too. Pater ipse colendi, hand facilem esse vium voluit. He that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill; OUT antagonist is our helper. This amicable contest with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance... | |
 | Civilization - 1851 - 428 pages
...guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, and he loves us better too. He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens...relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. — Burke, SOUTH AUSTRALIA. THE COUNTRY. THE province of South Australia is that portion of the island... | |
 | 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... | |
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