 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
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 396 pages
...parental guardian and legislator, who knoivs us better than we know ourselves, and he loves us better too. He, that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves,...difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our olrject, and compels .us to consider it in all its relations. It will net suili-r us to be superficial.... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 334 pages
...parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, and he loves UB better too. He, that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves,...difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our ofy'ec/, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not sutler us to be superficial.... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 390 pages
...better than wo know ourselves, and he loves us better too. He, that wrestles with us, strenijthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist...difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our oly'eet, and compels ua to consider it in all its relations. It will in s suffer us to be superficial.... | |
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