"Have you ever heard of Dr. Johnson, of Samuel Johnson?" Aldo, Professor Aldo, introduced himself with this question to those ...

There are many basic but essential facts to be learned about Samuel Johnson. For example, he was born in 1709 and died in 1784. His life spanned the reign of four British Monarchs: Queen Anne ...

Matson earned his PhD in economics from George Mason University and his research focuses on eighteenth-​century British moral ...

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James Boswell, Samuel Johnson’s esteemed biographer ... Several times, William-Henry would recall, the great man interrupted his inspection to gulp hot brandy and water. Finally, he set the ...

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On April 7, 1775, less than two weeks before the historic battle on Lexington Green, Samuel Johnson, the British intellectual ... revealed a portrait of a man who devoted his life to the ...

Dr Johnson once lamented that ‘no man leaves his eloquence behind him’. And yet, thanks to his friends, hundreds of the Great Cham’s forceful one-liners survive. We know what he said about cucumbers ...

Samuel Johnson: Not only have you impecuniated my dictionary, you have also lost the chance to act as patron to the only book in the world that is even better! Blackadder: Oh. And what is that, sir?