 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1863 - 312 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.' CHAPTER V, EXAMPLES AND... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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. REVOLUTIONS OF NATIONAL... | |
 | Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 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. DISEASES. Often have I thought... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1864 - 400 páginas
...undergo, the better adapted they become for the attainment of excellence. As Edmund Burke, said, " 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." This is good ; but we have... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 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. REVOLUTIONS OF NATIONAL... | |
 | Daniel Moore - 1865 - 218 páginas
...entirely free from difficulties, would have been expedient for ourselves? For, as Burke has well observed, "this amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us...intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial V'« We desire not, therefore,... | |
 | Readings - 1866 - 196 páginas
...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 all its relations ; it will not suffer us to be superficial." Those who are too apt... | |
 | David Thomas - 1868 - 404 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 do for us to be superficial." (No. CXLII.) CONTRASTS.... | |
 | Gathered grain - 1871 - 366 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. Our Father deals... | |
 | London univ, exam. papers - 1871 - 294 páginas
...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. (b) Public School»... | |
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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... 
