 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 636 pages
...-viam voluit. He that wreftles with us ftrengthens our nerves, and fharpens our (kill. Our antagonift is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an int'n mate acquaintance with our object, and cc-mpels us to confider it in all its relations. It will... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 pages
...mam voluit. He that wreftles with us9 itrengthens our nerves, and fharpens our fkill. Our antagonift is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance v.ith our object, and compels us to confider it in all its relations. It will not fuller us to be fuperficial.... | |
 | 1813 - 574 pages
...than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Pater ipse colendi hand facilem esse viam volait. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and...This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us 1o an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations- It... | |
 | Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 pages
...better 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... | |
 | 1840 - 876 pages
...better than we know ourselves, as he loves us better, too. Pater ipse culendi, hauti facilem esse viam voluit. He that wrestles with us, strengthens our...skill ; our antagonist is our helper. This amicable contest with difficulty, obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to... | |
 | 1821 - 362 pages
...better 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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...and in our present constitution, interpose a salutary check to all precipitate revolutions. Burke. He that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves,...helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges ut to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations.... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...know ourselves, and he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves, an<! sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with ditliculty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in... | |
 | 1834 - 1056 pages
...than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Jpse pater coletidi liaud fadlnm esto viam vuluit. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and...Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict wilh difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 422 pages
...strengthener of every noble impulse. . „ • . . ..IT " He that wrestles with us," says Burke, " strengthens Our" nerves, and sharpens our skill. —...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."... | |
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Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the supreme ordinance of a parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. 
