 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
 | 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... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1860 - 194 pages
...better than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Pater ipse colendi Haud facilemviam voluit.' He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and...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."... | |
 | Campaign speeches - 1979 - 1272 pages
...November — let me quote the words of the distinguished conservative philosopher, Edmund Burke, who said, "He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and...sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper." Thank you very much. PRESS EXCHANGE This is a transcript of President Ford's news conference held in... | |
 | United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford) - Presidents - 1979 - 1544 pages
...words of the distinguished conservative philosopher, Edmund Burke, who said, "He that [262] March 26 wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper." Thank you very much. NOTE: The President spoke at 10:02 pm in the Los Angeles Room at the Century Plaza... | |
 | James Boyd White - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1985 - 400 pages
...beyond the reach of their original thoughts, the land marks of the human understanding itself. . . . This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us...relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial" (p. 278). 7. Burke repeatedly characterizes the French and their allies as violating "nature," including... | |
 | Bob Phillips - Quotations, English - 1993 - 372 pages
...wise. Proverbs 13:20 COMPANY If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record. Anonymous He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and...sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. Edmund Burke The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making... | |
 | Charles W. Freeman, Jr. - 1995 - 616 pages
...Exchanging a fierce antagonist for a meek friend is a poor bargain. Antagonists, instruction from: "He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and...sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper." Edmund Burke, 1790 Appearance: "An ambassador should, as far as possible, be good-looking; a man who... | |
 | Albert O. Hirschman - Business & Economics - 1995 - 282 pages
...energized even the opposition, from Milton Friedman to James Buchanan, in accordance with Burke's dictum, "our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict...obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object." 8. Pierre Rosanvallon, "The Development of Keynesianism in France," in Hall, ed., Political Power,... | |
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