 | University magazine - 1851 - 822 pages
...celebrated letter to Lord Chesterfield — " A patron is one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help." Sir Walter Scott was not one of these. His kind heart and active benevolence went to work at once,... | |
 | 1852 - 436 pages
...sentences, where he asks, " Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground,...encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 pages
...a native of the rocks. " Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground...encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am... | |
 | 1852 - 590 pages
...native of the rocks. "Is not a patron, 015* Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground,...encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind: but it has been delayed till I am... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 588 pages
...a native of the rocks. " Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground...encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent,... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 pages
...encouragement, or one smile of favour Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground...encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 568 pages
...a native of the rocks. :'Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help I The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind: but... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1853 - 120 pages
...a native of the rocks. ' Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground,...encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind : but it has been delayed till I am... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 pages
...a native of the rocks. " Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground,...encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1853 - 130 pages
...native of the rocks. ' Is not a patron, .my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help P The . notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind... | |
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Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help... 
