 | James Mason Hoppin - Church group work - 1881 - 842 pages
...and they made even their enemies teach them success. Burke says: " Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate...relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial." Criticism for the moment humbles, but he who would build high must build low. Nothing touches a man's... | |
 | Hugh Seymour Tremenheere - Political science - 1882 - 298 pages
...will in time sink into another China (also * Burke has said that " Difficulty is a severe instructor. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and...relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial." (Works, Vol. ii, p. 437. Edit. 1855.) a most commercial and industrious nation), resolves itself to... | |
 | Hugh Seymour Tremenheere - 1882 - 292 pages
...Difficulty ia a severe instructor. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens pur skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable...relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial." (Works, Vol. ii, p. 437. Edit. 1855.) a most commercial and industrious nation), resolves itself to... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 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...relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. It is the want of nerves of understanding for such a task ; it is the degenerate fondness for tricking,... | |
 | Burlington B. Wale - Nature - 1883 - 234 pages
...victory. Sophocles makes even Hercules sink beneath impressions of vicissitude. It has been said that he that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and...relations ; it will not suffer us to be superficial. Adversity is indeed the quickest and most unerring of all tutors ; for she instructs us more in weeks... | |
 | Annie Besant - Free thought - 1885 - 464 pages
...thought, and can only be dispelled by the shock of opposition. " He that wrestles with us," says Burke, " strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our...and compels us to consider it in all its relations." If aught that I say clashes with your convictions, please bear in mind that this is the spirit in which... | |
 | James Mason Hoppin - Preaching - 1883 - 890 pages
...antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with qur object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial." Criticism for the moment humbles, but he who would build high must build low. Nothing touches a man's... | |
 | University of Cambridge - 1884 - 624 pages
...their original thoughts the land-marks of the human understanding itself. He that wrestles with из strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our...relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. It is the want of nerves of understanding for such a task; it is the degenerate fondness for tricking... | |
 | Diurnal - 1885 - 246 pages
...parental Guardian and Legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, as He loves us better too. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict...relations : it will not suffer us to be superficial. BURKE. a0piration. 28. GREAT God of spirits ! I would live in Thee, At home, or far, beneath Thy sheltering... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1886 - 276 pages
...WITH DIFFICULTIES CHARACTERISES WISE STATESMANSHIP. Pater ipse colendi haud fadlcm esse viam voluit. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and...relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. It is* the want of nerves of understanding for such a task, it is the degenerate fondness for tricking... | |
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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... 
