 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
 | James Cleland - 1837 - 172 pages
...say that you can command success without difficulty. No. Difficulty is the condition of success. " Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by...than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. ' Pater ipse colendi haud facilem esse viam voluit.' He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves... | |
 | University of Glasgow, John Barras Hay - 1839 - 414 pages
...I say that you can command success without difficulty? No: difficulty is the condition of success. "Difficulty is a severe instructor set over us by...than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. ' Pater ipse colendi, haud facilem esse viam voluit.' He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 546 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 haudfacilem esse viam voluit. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...push forward beyond the reach of their original thoughts the landmarks of the human understanding. Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by...than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Ipse pater colendi hand facilem esse mam voluit. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 536 pages
...language of one gifted with as great powers as perhaps were ever vouchsafed to man — Edmund Burke! " DIFFICULTY is a severe instructor, set over us by...than we know ourselves, as he loves us better, too. Pater ipse colendi, hand facilem esse vium voluit. He that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 300 pages
...push forward beyond the reach of their original thoughts the landmarks of the human understanding. Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by...than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Ipse pater colendi hand facilem esse viam voluit. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves,... | |
 | Samuel Warren - English literature - 1841 - 414 pages
...language of one blessed with as great powers as perhaps were ever vouchsafed to man — Edmund Burke ! " DIFFICULTY is a severe instructor, set over us by...than we know ourselves, as he loves us better, too. Pater ipse colendi, haudfacilem esse mam voluit. He that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves and... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1841 - 436 pages
...one gifted with as great powers as perhaps were ever vouchsafed to man — Edmund Burke! "DiFKici'LTv is a severe instructor, set over us by the supreme...than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Pater ipse colendi, haud facilem este viam voluit. He that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves... | |
 | Civilization - 1851 - 428 pages
...purity, compassion, and benevolence, among such a people. — CampbdCs India. DIFFICULTY SHARPENS SKILL. DIFFICULTY is a severe instructor, set over us by...legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, and he loves us better too. He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill.... | |
 | N. A. Westphalen - 1841 - 510 pages
...conquests over new difficulties, thus to enable them to extend the empire of their science. — — Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by...guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know oyrselves, as he loves us better too." 2iud) Daé cmerfcmnt ®iite muß bent 33efíeren nwdjen, aber... | |
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