 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 - Sivu 195tekijä(t) Edmund Burke - 1839Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
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...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... | |
 | Charles Jean Delille - 1851 - 506 sivua
...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 ns to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. — BURKE. Public... | |
 | Nehemiah Cleaveland - 1851 - 146 sivua
...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... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1851 - 562 sivua
...strengthens our nerves and sharpens 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 consider it in Mi its relations; it will not suffer us to be »uperficial." The man whose disposition is one of sterling... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1851 - 588 sivua
...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 antago" nist is our helper ! " If amidst so much of eloquence and feeling as Burke's writings display... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1851 - 570 sivua
...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 antago" nist is our helper ! " If amidst so much of eloquence and feeling as Burke's writings display... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1852 - 608 sivua
...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...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... | |
 | Charlotte Eliza Sargeant - 1852 - 234 sivua
...supreme ordinance of a parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves. " He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and...relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial." Energy, and a firmness of aim which will grapple with difficulties, are highly desirable ; but it is... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 sivua
...we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Pater ipse colcniii Ilaud facilom esso viam voluit." He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. It has been the glory of the great masters in all the arts to confront and to overcome ; and when they... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 sivua
...than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Pater ipse colendi Haad facilem essc viam voluit.3 He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. It has been the glory of the great masters in all the arts to confront and to overcome ; and when they... | |
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