 | American Institute of Instruction - 1860 - 194 pages
...better than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Pater ipse colendi Haud facilemviam 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 subject, and... | |
 | 1979 - 1272 pages
...November — let me quote the words of the distinguished conservative philosopher, Edmund Burke, who said, "He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and...sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper." Thank you very much. PRESS EXCHANGE This is a transcript of President Ford's news conference held in... | |
 | United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford) - 1979 - 1544 pages
...words of the distinguished conservative philosopher, Edmund Burke, who said, "He that [262] March 26 wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper." Thank you very much. NOTE: The President spoke at 10:02 pm in the Los Angeles Room at the Century Plaza... | |
 | Bob Phillips - 1993 - 372 pages
...wise. Proverbs 13:20 COMPANY If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record. Anonymous He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and...sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. Edmund Burke The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making... | |
 | Charles W. Freeman, Jr. - 1995 - 616 pages
...Exchanging a fierce antagonist for a meek friend is a poor bargain. Antagonists, instruction from: "He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and...sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper." Edmund Burke, 1790 Appearance: "An ambassador should, as far as possible, be good-looking; a man who... | |
 | Tom Harpur - 1998 - 262 pages
...wretch, lay wrestling with (my God!) my God From Carrion Comfort, by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and...sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. Edmund Burke (1790) But God who is able to prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob,... | |
 | Henry James - 1999 - 440 pages
..."Our antagonist is our helper" ': From Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790): '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... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 pages
...Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. Reflections on the Revolution in France ( I 790) 2 lie that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. Reflections (>м the Revolution in l-'runce (1790) 3 Our patience will achieve more than our force.... | |
 | Gordon B. Baty, Michael S. Blake - 2003 - 312 pages
...lost if you can't collect your money, so here's how to do it! 20 Competitors and What to Do about Them He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and...sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. ... Edmund Burke HO IS A COMPETITOR? Your very earliest efforts to assess the market for your proposed... | |
 | Luke Gibbons - 2003 - 326 pages
...Reflections, picking up a thread of argument that runs from his earliest letters through the Enquiry: 'He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and...sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper' (Reflecttons, 279). This lesson was not lost on the United Irishmen who saw that instead of acting... | |
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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... 
