 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...  Ten Thousand A-year - Page 376by Warren - 1842 - 4 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1860 - 192 pages
...knows us better than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Pater ipse oolendi Haud facilem viam voluit.' He that wrestles with us strengthens 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... | |
 | 1860 - 908 pages
...parental Guardian and Legislator, who knows us better tha« we know ourselves, and he lores us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and...skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our subjeet, and compels us to... | |
 | 1861 - 214 pages
...parental guardian and instructor, who knows us better than we know ourselves, as Ho loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill : our antagonist is thus our helper." THE BATTLE OF LIFE AN UP-HILL STRUGGLE. The battle of life, in by far the greater... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...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, and...skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintanee with our object, and compels us to... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1863 - 312 pages
...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 and...skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with Difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...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,...skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to... | |
 | 1863 - 910 pages
...guardian and legislator, who knows us better than wo know ourselves; and He loves us better too. Ho that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens...skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1863 - 64 pages
...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...sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.' These are the memorable words of the first of philosophic statesmen, the illustrious Edmund Burke.... | |
 | Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 pages
...paternal 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...skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to... | |
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