| Frederick Whitfield - 1872 - 284 páginas
...that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. The conflict 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 \>e superficial." * But observe, it is not... | |
| David Kay - 1873 - 242 páginas
...AURELIUS.) " 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." — (EDMUND BUBKE.) "If... | |
| Godfrey Golding - 1873 - 348 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. BURKE. Learn to admire... | |
| P. D. Handyside - 1874 - 112 páginas
...both sides, yet, to give a favourite quotation from Burke, "our antagonist is our helper. This amiable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations." During my occupancy of this Chair, it is gratifying to add, there... | |
| Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1874 - 166 páginas
...nerves, and sharpens our skill; our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulties 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." These are the memorable... | |
| Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1875 - 380 páginas
...wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. The amicable conflict 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." These are the memorable... | |
| Hugues Charles S. Cassal, Théodore Karcher - 1876 - 312 páginas
...better too. Be 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... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 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. It is the want of nerves... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1877 - 466 páginas
...viam voluit. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skil1. 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 superficia1. It is the want of nerves... | |
| Godfrey Golding - 1877 - 268 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. BURKE. Learn to admire... | |
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