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. A new theoretical and practical French grammar - Page 407by Charles Jean Delille - 1844Full view - About this book
| Europe - 1791 - 416 pages
...human underitai.ding itfc!f. Difficulty is a feverc inftruftor, fet over us by the fupreme ordinanca of a parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourfelves, as he loves us better too. PaSeripfe colenfi baud faction ejjt viam voluit. He tha Iwreftles... | |
| Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...between boundless strength on its own part, and total debility on the part of the people. 78 DIFFICULTY. DIFFICULTY is a severe instructor, set over us by...parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better that we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Pater ipse colendi haudfacilem esse viam voiuit.... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...between boundless strength on its own part, and total debility on the part of the people. 78 DIFFICULTY. DIFFICULTY is a severe instructor, set over us by...parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better that we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Pater ipse colendi haudfacilem esse viam voluit.... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...forward beyond the reach of their original thoughts, the land-marks of the human understanding itself. Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by...supreme ordinance of a parental guardian and legislator whp knows us better than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Pater ipse colendi haud facilem... | |
| 1811 - 334 pages
...forward beyond the reach of their original thoughts, the landmarks of the human understanding itself. Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by...than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Pater ipse colendi hand fa,' cilem esse viam voluit. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves... | |
| France - 1811 - 338 pages
...forward beyond the reach of their original thoughts, the landmarks of the human understanding itself. Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by...than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Pater ipse culendi haudfacilem esse viam voluit. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and... | |
| English literature - 1813 - 580 pages
...votre dependance." (Vol. I. p. 166, 16;.) In an equally admirable manner Mr. Burke has observed, that " difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by...than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Pater ipue cotendi hand facilem este -iiain I'oluit. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves... | |
| Edmund Burke - France - 1814 - 258 pages
...thoughts, the land marks of the human understanding itself. Difficulty is a severe instructor, bet over us by the supreme ordinance of a parental guardian...than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Pater ipse colendi baudfacilem esse viam voluit. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and... | |
| Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...between boundless strength on its own part, and total debility on the part of the people. 78 DIFFICULTY. DIFFICULTY is a severe instructor, set over us by...parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better that we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Pater ipse colendi haudfacilem esse viam voluit.... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1815 - 464 pages
...forward beyond the reach of their original thoughts, the land-marks of the human understanding itself. Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by...parental guardian and legislator who knows us better 4ter than we know ourselves, as he loves us bettef too. Pater ipse colcndi hand /acilem esse viam voluit.... | |
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