 | C. P. Bronson - 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 - 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.... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1845 - 430 pages
...better than we know ourselves, as he loves us better, too. Pater ipse colendi, haudfacilem 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... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 398 pages
...guardian and legislator, who known IKS bettAr tvetf us l>etwrcstles willi U8.stren^tlic;u» nir nerve--*, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper....conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate aoquaintance with our n'tject, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. U will not sutler... | |
 | 1848 - 792 pages
...better than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Pater ipse colendi haudfacilem esse viam voluit. He that wrestles with us, strengthens our...difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance wjth our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial."... | |
 | 1848 - 778 pages
...better than 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^ntagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1848 - 684 pages
...advantageously situated competitors, finely exemplifying his own expressions : — " He that wrestles with as strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper." It ¡aa fact that, at the University, Burke did not carry off a single prize, although he was incomparably... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1857 - 1022 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...sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amiable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels... | |
 | 586 pages
...parental guardian und legislator, who knows us butter than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper !" If amidst so much of eloquence anil feeling as Burke's writings display we are desired to seek for... | |
 | Nehemiah Cleaveland - 1851 - 146 pages
...parental guardian and legislator, who knows us tetter than we know ourselves—as He loves us better too. He that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves,...skill; our antagonist is our helper. This amicable contest with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object; it will not suffer... | |
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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. 
