 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
 | Civilization - 1851 - 428 pages
...and he loves us better too. He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict...It will not suffer us to be superficial. — Burke, SOUTH AUSTRALIA. THE COUNTRY. THE province of South Australia is that portion of the island formerly... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1841 - 436 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... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1841 - 344 pages
...great refuge. " 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."... | |
 | Warren - 1842 - 824 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, moreover, whose disposition is one of sterling excellence, despite the few foibles which it... | |
 | Robert Peel - Great Britain - 1843 - 504 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... | |
 | Charles Jean Delille - 1844 - 476 pages
...as he loves us better too He that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict...intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels usrto consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. — BURKE. Public... | |
 | 1844 - 858 pages
...strengthens our nerves, and sharpens oar skill : our antagonist is our helper. This tmicabic contest with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels ne to consider it in ail its relations ; it will not suffer UH to be superficial.' Those who are too... | |
 | 1844 - 878 pages
...strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill : our antagonist i our hel|KT. This amicable contest with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and conqieLs us to consider it in all its relations ; it will not buffer us to be superficial.1 Those who... | |
 | Samuel Warren - Law - 1845 - 1174 pages
...haudfacilem esse viam voluit. He that wjestles 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," he adds, " the want of nerves of understanding for such a task ; it is the degenerate fondness... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1845 - 430 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, moreover, whose disposition is one of sterling excellence, despite the few foibles which it... | |
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