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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... "
The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ... - Page 47
by Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 394 pages
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Designing the Life of Johnson

Bruce Redford - 2005 - 181 pages
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English Language and Composition

Arco, Arco Staff - 2002 - 296 pages
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Fra Magazine: Exponent of American Philosophy July 1911 to December 1911

Elbert Hubbard - 2003 - 648 pages
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Scepticism and Literature: An Essay on Pope, Hume, Sterne, and Johnson

Fred Parker - 2003 - 310 pages
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Tobias Smollett

Jeremy Lewis - 2003 - 352 pages
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Region, Religion and Patronage: Lancastrian Shakespeare

Richard Dutton, Alison Gail Findlay, Richard Wilson - 2003 - 280 pages
...laws, yet by the eighteenth century Dr Johnson could complain to Lord Chesterfield that a patron was 'one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling...and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help'.20 Johnson's antipathy notwithstanding, patronage was, for seventeenth-century writers, a fundamental...
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Sacred to Female Patriotism: Gender, Class, and Politics in Late Georgian ...

Judith Schneid Lewis - 2003 - 272 pages
...sincerity. "Is not a patron, my Lord," he had written to Lord Chesterfield, the doyen of politeness, "one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling...and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?"11" The patronage system, by reducing men to positions of dependence and, consequently, of effeminacy,...
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中西诗比较鉴赏与翻译理论: comparative poetics and translatology

辜正坤 - 2003 - 580 pages
...smile of favour'201. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. The Shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a Native of the Rocks'2". Is not a Patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life in the...
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Help: The Original Human Dilemma

Garret Keizer - 2004 - 288 pages
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Spruce-Strakosch

Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison - 2004 - 1064 pages
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