 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 - xx. oldalszerző: Matthew Arnold - 1865 - 302 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1826 - 854 oldal
...codifiers of the French National Assembly,) ' Our antagonist is OUT helper. This amicable conflict obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in ali its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. It is the want of nerves of understanding... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1828 - 182 oldal
...haudfacilem 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... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 oldal
...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...in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.—Burke. ccLxxvn. Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 828 oldal
...precipitate revolutions. Burke. 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 sufler us to be superficial. 1Л. Every speck Seen in the dim horizon turns thec pale With conflict... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 oldal
...nerves, an<! sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with ditliculty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object,...It will not suffer us to be superficial. — Burke. CCLXXVII. Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 oldal
...sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges ut to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels...relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. "' Every speck Seen in the dim horizon turns thcc pale Witli conflict of contending hopes and fears.... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 oldal
...haudfacilem 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." This is the student's own work. It admits of no substitute. No costly library, no hoarded treasure... | |
 | 1834 - 1056 oldal
...strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict wilh difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance...relations. It •will not suffer us to be superficial. It is the want of nerves of understanding for such a ta>k, it is the degenerate fondness for tricking... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1835 - 580 oldal
...facilem esse viain voluit. He that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict...with our object, and compels us to consider it in all ks relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. It is," he adds, " the want of nerves of understanding... | |
 | James Cleland - 1837 - 172 oldal
...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 expressions of the first of philosophic statesmen, of the greatest orator,... | |
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