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Memoir of the Hon. Josiah Gardner Abbott ...: Read Before the Old Residents ... - Page 50
by Charles Cowley - 1892 - 92 pages
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The Beauties of Burke: Consisting of Selections from His Works

Edmund Burke - 1828 - 182 pages
...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...sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with « our object, and...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 3

Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, and he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves,...sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 6

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 828 pages
...and ia our present constitution, interpose a salutary check to all precipitate revolutions. Burke. He that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves,...sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and...
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The Biblical repositor (and quarterly observer) [afterw.] The American ...

Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 pages
...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,...sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 35

1834 - 1056 pages
...than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Jpse pater coletidi liaud fadlnm esto viam vuluit. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and...sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict wilh difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and...
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A Popular and Practical Introduction to Law Studies

Samuel Warren - 1835 - 580 pages
...than we know ourselves, as he loves us better, too. Pater ipse colendi hand facilem esse viain voluit. He that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves,...sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and...
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Inaugural Addresses by Lords Rectors of the University of Glasgow: To which ...

University of Glasgow, John Barras Hay - 1839 - 626 pages
...we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. ' Pater ipse colendi, haud facilem cssc viam voluit.' 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...
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The Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - 1839 - 546 pages
...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...sharpens our . skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict ^ with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and...
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The Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - 1839 - 548 pages
...know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Pater ipse colendi hand facilem esse viam voluit. \£Ie that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. ( Our antagonist is our helperA This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object,...
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A Memoir of the Political Life of the Right Honourable Edmund ..., Volume 2

George Croly - 1840 - 300 pages
...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, and...sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and...
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