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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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History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chaoelle ...

Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 414 pages
...parental Guardian and Legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and...' sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper ! " If amidst so much of eloquence and feeling as Burke's writings display we are desired to seek for...
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History of England: From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of ..., Volume 5

Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 416 pages
...Guar'dian and Legislator, who knows us better than we know ' ourselves , as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with 'us strengthens our nerves and...sharpens our skill. Our ' antagonist is our helper ! " If amidst so much of eloquence and feeling as Burke's writings display we are desired to seek for...
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The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 pages
...parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, as 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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Ten thousand a year

Samuel Warren - 1854 - 408 pages
...than we know ourselves, as he loves us better, too. Pater ipse colendi, haud facuem esse mam voluit. He that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves and...sharpens our skill ; our antagonist is our helper. This amicable contest with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels...
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The Boy's Second Help to Reading: A Selection of Choice Passages from ...

Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 pages
...than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Pater ipse 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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Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Meetings, Volume 14

1855 - 614 pages
...Parental Guardian or Legislator who knows us better than we know ourselves, as 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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Laconics, Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors: In Three Volumes, Volume 3

1856 - 374 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 Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...parental Guardian and Legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, as 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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Principles of Elocution

Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 pages
...parental guardian and legislator who knows us better than we know ourselves, as he loves us butter 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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The British Millennial Harbinger

1857 - 594 pages
...supreme ordinance of a parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves. 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 subject, and...
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