| Laconics - 1829 - 352 páginas
...better too. He that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty...intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.—Burke. ccLxxvn. Heav'n... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 páginas
...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 all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. — Burke. CCLXXVII. Had... | |
| Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 páginas
...mam voluit. He that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty...intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial." This is the student's own... | |
| 1834 - 1056 páginas
...strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict wilh difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It •will not suffer us to be superficial. It is the want of nerves... | |
| Samuel Warren - 1835 - 582 páginas
...mam voluit. He that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty...intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all ks relations. Jt will not suffer us to be superficial. It is,:t he adds, " the want... | |
| James Cleland - 1837 - 172 páginas
...viam voluit.' He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty...intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial." These are the memorable... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1837 - 422 páginas
...wrestles with us," says Burke, " 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 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... | |
| John Barras Hay - 1839 - 376 páginas
...viam voluit.' He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty...intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial." These are the memorable... | |
| University of Glasgow, John Barras Hay - 1839 - 332 páginas
...viam voluit.' He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty...intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial." These are the memorable... | |
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