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 - Página 195de Edmund Burke - 1839Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Edmund Burke - 1828 - 182 páginas
...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...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... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 352 páginas
...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,...in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.—Burke. ccLxxvn. Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 828 páginas
...and ia our present constitution, interpose a salutary check to all precipitate revolutions. Burke. He that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves,...us to consider it in all its relations. It will not sufler us to be superficial. 1Л. Every speck Seen in the dim horizon turns thec pale With conflict... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
| Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 páginas
...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,...relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial." This is the student's own work. It admits of no substitute. No costly library, no hoarded treasure... | |
| 1834 - 1056 páginas
...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... | |
| Samuel Warren - 1835 - 580 páginas
...than we know ourselves, as he loves us better, too. Pater ipse colendi hand facilem esse viain voluit. He that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves,...with our object, and compels us to consider it in all ks relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. It is," he adds, " the want of nerves of understanding... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1837 - 422 páginas
...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."... | |
| 1838 - 436 páginas
...overcoincthe first difficulty, lo turn it into an instrument for new conquests over new difficulties." "This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us...intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels which has obliged the national assembly of France to commence their schemes of reform with abolition... | |
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