| American Institute of Instruction - 1860 - 192 ページ
...ourselves, as he loves us better too. Pater ipse oolendi Haud facilem viam voluit.' He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our...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."... | |
| Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 ページ
...legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves ; and He loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our...conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintanee with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1863 - 312 ページ
...legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves ; and He loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our...in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.' CHAPTER V, EXAMPLES AND ENCOURAGEMENTS FROM THE LIVES OF MEN EMINENT FOR COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 ページ
...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...in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. REVOLUTIONS OF NATIONAL GRANDEUR. I doubt whether the history of mankind is yet complete... | |
| 1863 - 910 ページ
...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 our skill. Our...helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It... | |
| Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1863 - 64 ページ
...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 ページ
...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...in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. DISEASES. Often have I thought with myself what disease I would be best contented to die... | |
| Congregational union of England and Wales - 1864 - 400 ページ
...undergo, the better adapted they become for the attainment of excellence. As Edmund Burke, said, " Difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance...in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial." This is good ; but we have something still better : it is recorded in one of Burke's... | |
| 1872 - 822 ページ
...loves us better too. Pater ipse colendi haud facilem ease viom voluit. He that ' wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper." A. His extemporary efforts may lead a preacher to form habits of introspection ; to discipline himself... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 ページ
...Legislator, who knous 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...in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. REVOLUTIONS OF NATIONAL GRANDEUR. I doubt whether the history of mankind is yet complete... | |
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