 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...  Essays in Criticism - Page xxby Matthew Arnold - 1865 - 302 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 422 pages
.....IT " He that wrestles with us," says Burke, " strengthens Our" nerves, and sharpens our skill. — Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict...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."... | |
 | United States - 1838 - 436 pages
...overcoincthe first difficulty, lo turn it into an instrument for new conquests over new difficulties." "This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us...intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels which has obliged the national assembly of France to commence their schemes of reform with abolition... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 554 pages
...haudfacilem esse viam voluii. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict...relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. It is the want of nerves 13* lii J REFLECTIONS ON THE ' of understanding for such a task ; it is the... | |
 | University of Glasgow, John Barras Hay - 1839 - 332 pages
...facilem esse viam voluit.' He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict...relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial." These are the memorable words of the first of philosophic statesmen, of the greatest orator of modern... | |
 | John Barras Hay - 1839 - 376 pages
...facilem csse viam voluit.' He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict...relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial." These are the memorable words of the first of philosophic statesmen, of the greatest orator of modern... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 548 pages
...that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. ( Our antagonist is our helperA This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us...relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. It is the want of nerves 13* of understanding for such a task ; it is the degenerate fondness for tricking... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 300 pages
...facilem esse viam voluit. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict...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... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...hand facilem esse mam voluit. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict...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... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 536 pages
...strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill; OUT antagonist is our helper. This amicable contest with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance...relations; it will not suffer us to be superficial." The man whose disposition is one of sterling- excellence, despite the few foibles which it may have... | |
 | Scotland - 1840 - 1522 pages
...strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill ; our antagonist is our helper. This amicable contest with difficulty, obliges us to an intimate acquaintance...relations ; it will not suffer us to be superficial." The man whose disposition is one of sterling excellence, despite the few foibles which it may have... | |
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