When I first came across Samuel Johnson's pronouncement, `` the remedy for the ills of life is palliative rather than radical '', it seemed to me to sum up the profoundest of political and social truths.

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

" Est vir qui adest ", explained below, was cited as the example in Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language.

* Samuel Johnson's 1739 biography of him online: Life of Herman Boerhaave

In Samuel Johnson's 1828 dictionary, his definition of " pall mall " clearly describes a game with similarities to modern croquet: " A play in which the ball is struck with a mallet through an iron ring ".

An often quoted example is Samuel Johnson's definition for oats: " Oats: a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland, supports the people ", to which his Scots friend, Lord Elibank, retorted, " Yes, and where else will you see such horses and such men?

For example, Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1755, included the word.

Major poems in the closed couplet, apart from the works of Dryden and Pope, are Samuel Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes, Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village, and John Keats's Lamia.

Samuel Johnson's dictionary of 1755 greatly favoured Norman-influenced spellings such as centre and colour ; on the other hand, Noah Webster's first guide to American spelling, published in 1783, preferred spellings like center and the Latinate color.

He admitted that he was directly influenced by Purchas's Pilgrimage, but there are additional strong literary connections to other works, including John Milton's Paradise Lost, Samuel Johnson's Rasselas, Chatterton's African Eclogues, William Bartram's Travels through North and South Carolina, Thomas Burnet's Sacred Theory of the Earth, Mary Wollstonecraft's A Short Residence in Sweden, Plato's Phaedrus and Ion, Maurice's The History of Hindostan, and Heliodorus's Aethiopian History.

Samuel Johnson's verdict in 1776 was that " Nothing odd will do long.

* Samuel Johnson's London, itself an adaptation of Juvenal's Third Satire

As a member of the Texas House of Representatives, Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr., Johnson's father, been sensitive to his German-American constituency and had opposed the Creel Committee's attempt to disparage German culture and isolate German-Americans during World War I. Adenauer and Erhard had also stayed at Johnson's ranch in Gillespie County.

Later examples can be seen in Samuel Johnson's The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia and Samuel Butler's Erewhon, which uses an anagram of " nowhere " as its title.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work that Defined the English Language ( 2002 )

Johnson's grandfather, Samuel Ealy Johnson, Sr., was raised as a Baptist.

* Samuel Johnson, lexicographer, biographer, writer, poet Samuel Johnson's desk, in Broadgates.

This page contains text from Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets, a work now in the public domain.

Samuel Johnson made an interleaved copy the foundation of his own Johnson's Dictionary.

In 1755 Samuel Johnson's Dictionary defined a grammar school as a school in which the learned languages are grammatically taught ;

This was a period of great intellectual activity, the city being the home of many famous people including Samuel Johnson, David Garrick, Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward, and prompted Johnson's remark that Lichfield was " a city of philosophers ".

In 1756, on the recommendation of Samuel Foote, she became a member of the Drury Lane company, where she was overshadowed by Mrs Pritchard and Kitty Clive.

Samuel Emory Davis was born to them in 1756.

* Samuel Knox ( 1756 – 1832 ), born in County Armagh, Presbyterian clergyman, school principal, and author.

It was one of a number of such forts built from the Potomac River south to North Carolina, and was commanded by Captain Samuel Harris in 1756, the year in which George Washington made a tour of Fort Mayo and several other forts on the Virginia frontier.

* Samuel Jordan Cabell ( 1756 – 1818 ), born in Amherst County, United States Congressman

By 1756 or earlier this property was owned by Samuel Pierson.

* The Green-Room Squabble or a Battle Royal between the Queen of Babylon and the Daughter of Darius a 1756 play by Samuel Foote is lost.

In 1756 the hall was sold to Samuel Hill of Shenstone, Staffordshire.

Wieland's tastes had changed ; the writings of his early Swiss years — Der geprüfte Abraham ( The Trial of Abraham's Faith, 1753 ), Sympathien ( 1756 ), Empfindungen eines Christen ( 1757 ) — were still in the manner of his earlier writings, but with the tragedies, Lady Johanna Gray ( 1758 ), and Clementina von Porretta ( 1760 ) — the latter based on Samuel Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison — the epic fragment Cyrus ( 1759 ), and the " moral story in dialogues ," Araspes und Panthea ( 1760 ), Wieland, as Gotthold Lessing said, " forsook the ethereal spheres to wander again among the sons of men.

In 1756 he returned to Boston to continue his legal preparations with Samuel Prat, and he was admitted to the bar in 1757.

* Gustaf Samuel Gylleborg 1746 – 1756

* Samuel Smith ( Upper Canada politician ) ( 1756 – 1826 ), American-born Canadian politician ; Administrator of Upper Canada, 1817 – 1818

His mother's name was Diana, and his sister's name was Sarah, three years younger than Samuel Jr. Hearne joined the British Royal Navy in 1756 at the age of 12 as midshipman under the fighting captain Samuel Hood.

Samuel Smith ( 27 December 1756 – 20 October 1826 ) was a Loyalist British army officer and politician.

* Samuel Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys, 13 January 1756 – 15 December 1756

It was commanded by Colonel Andrew Van Swearingen ( 1741 – 1793 ) and later by his son-in-law, Captain Samuel Brady ( 1756 – 1795 ), the famous leader of Brady's Rangers.

Samuel Jordan Cabell ( December 15, 1756 – August 4, 1818 ) was an American Revolutionary war officer and Democratic-Republican United States Congressman from 1795 to 1803.

* Samuel Jordan Cabell ( 1756 – 1818 ), American military officer

James J. Coffin from the British whaling ship ' Transit ' and named after Samuel Enderby ( 1756 – 1829 ), owner of a London whaling company.

One of these specific applications, the carving of wooden figureheads for ships, started in the Americas as early as 1750 and a century later helped launch the careers of Samuel McIntyre and the country's first famous sculptor, William Rush ( 1756 – 1833 ) of Philadelphia ,.

* Colonel Samuel Ward, Jr. ( 1756 – 1832 ), Revolutionary soldier, politician

Samuel Oldknow ( 1756 – 1828 ) was an English cotton manufacturer.