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Samuel Johnson, according to his extraordinary biographer, James Boswell, expressed himself pointedly about the nobleman, in the following manner, ‘“ This man ( said he ) I thought had been a Lord among wits ; but I find he is only a wit among Lords !” And when his Letters to his natural son were published, he observed, that “ they teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing-master .”’ As a courtier he was utterly worsted by Robert Walpole, whose manners were anything but refined, and even by Newcastle.
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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!
Samuel and according
2 Samuel 3: 7 ), one of Saul's concubines, an alliance which, according to contemporary notions, would imply pretensions to the throne ( cf.
* Uncle Sam ( initials U. S .) is a common national personification of the American government that according to legend came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson a meat packer in New York, who supplied rations for the soldiers.
Although Shelton's version is cherished by some, according to John Ormsby and Samuel Putnam, it was far from satisfactory as a carrying over of Cervantes's text.
Solomon ( Šlomo ;, also colloquially: ; Solomōn ), according to the Book of Kings and the Book of Chronicles, a King of Israel and according to the Talmud one of the 48 prophets, is identified as the son of David, also called Jedidiah ( Hebrew ) in 2 Samuel 12: 25, and is described as the third king of the United Monarchy, and the final king before the northern Kingdom of Israel and the southern Kingdom of Judah split ; following the split his patrilineal descendants ruled over Judah alone.
Eli was, according to the Books of Samuel, the name of a priest of Shiloh, and one of the last Israelite Judges before the rule of kings in ancient Israel.
Since many of the Mitzvot themselves are thought to postdate the Book ( s ) of Samuel ( according to the documentary hypothesis ), Chronicles is probably making its claim based on religious bias.
Samuel then went into retirement, though he reappears briefly in the two accounts of why Saul's dynasty lost divine favour ( parts of and ), essentially acting, according to scholars, as the narrator's mouthpiece.
* Landscape ( landscapists were the " common footmen in the Army of Art " according to the Dutch theorist Samuel van Hoogstraten ) and cityscape
Smith suggests that the city was probably founded by the Phoenicians, who called it Tarchon, which, according to Samuel Bochart, means a citadel.
Adonijah was the fourth son of King David and Haggith according to the book of Samuel ( See: 2 Sam.
But, Agag being a heathen, Samuel convicted him according to the heathen law, which demanded only evidence of the crime for condemnation ( Pesiq.
" This newly-recovered final line upset Samuel Noah Kramer's former interpretation, as he allowed: " my conclusion that Dumuzi dies and " stays dead " forever ( cf e. g. Mythologies of the Ancient World p. 10 ) was quite erroneous: Dumuzi according to the Sumerian mythographers rises from the dead annually and, after staying on earth for half the year, descends to the Nether World for the other half ".
Earliest known settlers ( by 1840 ) were Samuel Thompson, Robert Moore, John W. Burns, Jeff and Robert Montgomery, Benjamin Stephens, James Young, William Franklin, Isham Pool, and the Tuckers, according to Goodspeed.
James II, as Duke of York and Lord Admiral until 1673, was often at Greenwich with his brother Charles and, according to Samuel Pepys, he proposed the idea of creating a Royal Naval Hospital.
Grave of Samuel Dashiell Hammett in Arlington National Cemetery, ( Section 12, Site 508 ) A lifetime's heavy consumption of alcohol and cigarettes worsened Hammett's tuberculosis contracted in World War I, and then according to Hellman " jail had made a thin man thinner, a sick man sicker.
On leaving school he was apprenticed to a silk mercer in London, but being weary, according to Samuel Johnson, " of either the restraint or the servility of his occupation ", he soon returned to Barnstaple, where he was educated by his uncle, the Rev.
In 1797, according to his own account, the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was reading about Xanadu in Purchas his Pilgrimage, fell asleep, and had an opium-inspired dream.
After being disappointed, according to biographer Ian Hamilton, when " rumblings from Hollywood " over his 1943 short story " The Varioni Brothers " came to nothing, J. D. Salinger did not hesitate when independent producer Samuel Goldwyn offered to buy the film rights to " Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut.
His classical knowledge, according to Edward Harwood, was ‘ almost unrivalled ,’ but Samuel Parr found fault with his latinity.
From 1875 to 1910, architects and horticulturalists such as Calvert Vaux and Samuel Parsons laid out the stretch of park between 72nd and 125th Streets according to the English gardening ideal, creating the appearance that the Park was an extension of the Hudson River Valley.
The word is first found in Samuel II, 5: 7 dating to c. 630 – 540 BCE according to modern scholarship.
It appeared in a compendium called Ancient Poland according to its history, geography and statistics ( Starożytna Polska pod względem historycznym, geograficznym i statystycznym ) published in 1848 by Samuel Orgelbrand in Warsaw.
Samuel George Morton ( 1799 – 1851 ) collected hundreds of human skulls from all over the world and started trying to find a way to classify them according to some logical criterion.
It is a specially noteworthy fact that in certain cases the exilarch judged according to the Persian law Kamma 58b ; and it was the exilarch ' Ukba b. Nehemiah who communicated to the head of the school of Pumbedita, Rabbah ben Nahmai, three Persian statutes which Samuel recognized as binding Batra 55a.
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