In his study Samuel Johnson, Joseph Wood Krutch takes this line when he says that what Aristotle really means by his theory of catharsis is that our evil passions may be so purged by the dramatic ritual that it is `` less likely that we shall indulge them through our own acts ''.

His fellow students — there were 38 in all — included young Samuel I. Hayakawa ( later to become a Republican member of the U. S. Senate ), Ralph Moriarty deBit ( later to become the spiritual teacher Vitvan ) and Wendell Johnson ( founder of the Monster Study ).

Rep. Samuel S. Cox saw Johnson at this time and remarked that, when asked if the President would modify his views, " He got as ugly as the devil.

Johnson appointed one judge to the United States Court of Claims, Samuel Milligan, who served from 1868 to 1874.

* Rehnquist, William H. Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson ( 1994 ).

The route has to be changed, which will require it to go through Rock Ridge, a frontier town where everyone has the last name of " Johnson " ( including a " Howard Johnson ", a " Dr. Samuel Johnson ", a " Van Johnson " and an " Olson N. Johnson ").

* Richard Collier as Dr. Samuel Johnson

The series features rotten boroughs ( or " robber buttons "), Dr. Samuel Johnson ( played by Robbie Coltrane ), William Pitt the Younger ( Simon Osborne ), the French Revolution ( featuring Chris Barrie, Nigel Planer and Tim McInnerny as the Scarlet Pimpernel ), over-the-top theatrical actors, a squirrel-hating transvestite highwayman, and a duel with the Duke of Wellington ( played by Stephen Fry ).

Conservatives also objected to Burke's support of the American Revolution, which the Tory Samuel Johnson, for example, attacked in " Taxation No Tyranny ".

* 1784 – Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer ( b. 1709 )

ranging from violent diatribes by John Wilkes, to vulgar jokes and obscene cartoons in the popular press, and the haughty ridicule by intellectuals such as Samuel Johnson that was much resented by Scots.

* 1846 – Samuel Johnson, Nigerian historian and priest ( d. 1901 )

He was both gregarious and keenly intellectual, with a great number of friends from London's intelligentsia, numbered amongst whom were Dr Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, Giuseppe Baretti, Henry Thrale, David Garrick and fellow artist Angelica Kauffmann.

In 1791 James Boswell dedicated his Life of Samuel Johnson to Reynolds.

* Dr. Samuel Johnson ( September 18, 1709 – December 13, 1784 )

At least since the days of Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson, analysis of the play has centred on the question of Macbeth's ambition, commonly seen as so dominant a trait that it defines the character.

* 1740 – James Boswell, Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson ( d. 1795 )

The English author, critic, and biographer, Samuel Johnson, was convinced that Macpherson was " a mountebank, a liar, and a fraud, and that the poems were forgeries ".

* A Vision of Britain Through Time James Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, discussion in entries for 22 and 23 September 1773.

For example, many 18th-and 19th-century scholars, including Samuel Johnson, Lewis Theobald, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, and James Halliwell-Phillipps, placed the composition of Henry VIII prior to 1604, as they believed Elizabeth's execution of Mary, Queen of Scots ( the then king James I's mother ) made any vigorous defence of the Tudors politically inappropriate in the England of James I. Oxfordians cite these sources to place the composition of the play within Oxford's lifetime.

Shakespeare was also noted for his frequent play with less serious puns, the " quibbles " of the sort that made Samuel Johnson complain, " A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller!

* 1709 – Samuel Johnson, English author and lexicographer ( d. 1784 )

* December 13 – Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer ( b. 1709 )

Chapin ( 1990 ) argues that Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 84 ), a leading London intellectual, repeatedly denigrated the Whigs and praised the Tories.

Samuel Johnson was born in Breadmarket Street in 1709.

* September 18, 1709: Samuel Johnson ( died 1784 )

* Samuel Johnson – ( 1709 – 1784 ) author

## Samuel Johnson: 1709 – 84

* Dr. Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784 )

Matthew Prior, in dedicating his Poems on Several Occasions ( 1709 ) to Dorset's son, affirms that his opinion was consulted by Edmund Waller ; that the Duke of Buckingham deferred the publication of his Rehearsal until he was assured that Dorset would not rehearse upon him again ; and that Samuel Butler and Wycherley both owed their first recognition to him.

* Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784 )

Samuel Clarke was rector from 1709 to 1729 and was one of the leading intellectual figures of eighteenth-century Britain.

" A Key to Hudibras " printed with one of the work's editions ( 1709 ) and ascribed to Roger L ' Estrange names Sir Samuel Luke as the model for Hudibras.

* 1980 – Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d ' état, ending over 130 years of minority Americo-Liberian rule over the country.

* 1755 – Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.

* 1924 – Samuel Bowers, American murder, co-founded White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan ( d. 2006 )

* 1826 – Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.

* Sir Samuel Henry Strong – September 30, 1875

* 1875 – Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English composer ( d. 1912 )

* 986 – A Byzantine army is destroyed in the pass of the Gate of Trajan by the Bulgarians under the Comitopuli Samuel and Aron.

* 1912 – Samuel Fuller, American director ( d. 1997 )

* 1689 – Samuel Richardson, English writer ( d. 1761 )

* 1613 – Samuel Argall captures Native American princess Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia to ransom her for some English prisoners held by her father.

* 1991 – Samuel Larsen, American actor and singer

* 1720 – Samuel Whitbread, English politician and brewer, founded Whitbread ( d. 1796 )

* 1890 – Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, English pilot ( d. 1918 )

* 1927 – Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist ( d. 2008 )

* 1741 – Samuel Chase, American justice of the Supreme Court ( d. 1811 )

* 1740 – Samuel Arnold, English composer and organist ( d. 1802 )

In the nineteenth century Samuel Sebastian Wesley ( 1810 – 1876 ) wrote anthems influenced by contemporary oratorio which stretch to several movements and last twenty minutes or longer.

In his 1781 book General History of Connecticut, the Reverend Samuel Peters ( 1735 – 1826 ) used it to describe various laws first enacted by Puritan colonies in the 17th century that prohibited various activities, recreational as well as commercial, on Sunday ( Saturday evening through Sunday night ).

The estate was sold on 4 June 1883 to Sir Herbert Samuel Leon ( 1850 – 1926 ), a financier and Liberal MP.

Additionally, though the Chronicler's principal source is the Deuteronomistic History, coming primarily, as stated above, from the books of 2 Samuel and 1 – 2 Kings and other public records and sources ( see above ), the Chronicler also uses other biblical sources, particularly from the Pentateuch, as redacted and put together by P ( the Priestly Source ).

Rather than being written as history, the Deuteronomistic history – Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings – was intended to illustrate a theological scheme in which Israel and her leaders are judged by their obedience to the teachings and laws ( the covenant ) set down in the book of Deuteronomy.

In doing so the bulk of Liberals remained supporting the government, but two distinct Liberal groups had emerged within this bulk – the Liberal Nationals ( officially the " National Liberals " after 1947 ) led by Simon, also known as " Simonites ", and the " Samuelites " or " official Liberals ", led by Samuel who remained as the official party.

* Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel 1944 – 1955