 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
 | 1863 - 910 pages
...and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels...it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to bo superficial. — Burke. io ®biuh about. " Behold, now is the accepted time." — 2 Con. vi. 2.... | |
 | Wise sayings - Maxims - 1864 - 394 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...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 of. None please... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1864 - 400 pages
...undergo, the better adapted they become for the attainment of excellence. As Edmund Burke, said, " Difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance...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 biographies, that... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 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...relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. REVOLUTIONS OF NATIONAL GRANDEUR. I doubt whether the history of mankind is yet complete enough, if... | |
 | Daniel Moore - 1865 - 218 pages
...entirely free from difficulties, would have been expedient for ourselves? For, as Burke has well observed, "this amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us...relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial V'« We desire not, therefore, that the things pertaining to God should be made too easy to us. On... | |
 | Readings - Business - 1866 - 196 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." Those who are too apt to quake and quail before every difficulty, would do well to learn the song of... | |
 | David Thomas - 1868 - 404 pages
...and 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...us to consider it in all its relations. It will not do for us to be superficial." (No. CXLII.) CONTRASTS. " Folly is joy to Mm that is destitute of "wisdom... | |
 | 1870 - 398 pages
...and sharpens our skill. Our Antagonist is our Helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels...will not suffer us to be superficial . — Burke. Philosophy and Religion. — I take it to be as true of the intellectual as of the natural creation,... | |
 | London univ, exam. papers - 1871 - 294 pages
...loves us better too. . . . He that 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. (b) Public School» in France established by Charlemagne. The establishment of public schools in France... | |
 | Gathered grain - Christian life - 1871 - 366 pages
...and 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...relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. Burke. Our Father deals with His children in a way essentially different from that which the world might expect.... | |
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