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!

Economists Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis famously argued in 1976 that there was a fundamental conflict in American schooling between the egalitarian goal of democratic participation and the inequalities implied by the continued profitability of capitalist production on the other.

Samuel Johnson famously referred to patriotism as " the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Mary Todd Lincoln, for example, the wife of President Abraham Lincoln, was a laudanum addict, as was the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who was famously interrupted in the middle of an opium-induced writing session of Kubla Khan by a " person from Porlock.

Horace and Juvenal were also widely translated and imitated, Horace most famously by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester and Juvenal by Samuel Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes.

He saw islands of the Tuamotu group on the following 22 March, on 2 April saw the peak of Mehetea and famously visited the island of Otaheite shortly after and narrowly missed becoming their discoverer, unaware of a previous visit, and claim, by Samuel Wallis in HMS Dolphin less than a year previously.

Some Barbadian songs and stories made their way back to England, most famously " Inckle the English Sailor " and " Yarico the Indian Maid ", which became English plays and an opera by George Coleman with music by Samuel Arnold, and first performed in London in 1787.

Clifford voted for Samuel Tilden ( a fellow Democrat ), but Rutherford B. Hayes famously won by a single vote in the Compromise of 1877.

The Pacific doldrums were famously described in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner in the following stanzas:

He made use of a large number of contributors, most famously Samuel Johnson, who was always grateful to Cave for having provided his principal employment for many years.

He began acting around the same time and has made many appearances on stage, most famously in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot alongside Mike Harding at Bolton's Octagon Theatre, and Jim Cartwright's Road at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester.

Samuel Johnson famously composed three ex tempore parodies of this verse in the 1780s.

It was later famously played by Samuel Phelps.

Stockdale famously eulogized Samuel Johnson's cat Hodge in his " An Elegy on the Death of Dr Johnson's Favourite Cat.

There was a dispute with Charlton concerning " poaching " of their youth system by Aston Villa ; at the FA tribunal which was set up in response to the charges, Villa manager John Gregory was famously quoted as saying that he'd signed Samuel and did not expect him to play for the first team.

The regiment famously defended Lucknow from July to November 1857, Victoria Crosses being awarded to William Dowling, Henry George Gore-Browne, Samuel Hill Lawrence, and William Oxenham.

It was so experimental that Samuel Johnson later famously used it as an example of a fad when he said that nothing novel can sustain itself, for " Tristram Shandy did not last.

`` I've heard about it '', Samuel Burns said.

`` My God, it was cold today '', said Samuel Burns.

`` And your golden god '', said Samuel Burns, `` probably went right home and poured himself into a boiling bath.

* The single verse, 2 Samuel 18: 33, regarding David's grief at the loss of his son (" And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!

He was closely pursued by Asahel, brother of Joab, who is said to have been " light of foot as a wild roe " ( 2 Samuel 2: 18 ).

Jesse had seven of his sons pass before Samuel, but Samuel said to him, " The Lord has not chosen these .” So he asked Jesse, " Are these all the sons you have?

" Samuel said, " Send for him ; we will not sit down until he arrives.

" Samuel Smiles stated that he was " the scion of a distinguished Béarnese family "; although it is probable that the poverty of his parents would have excluded him from a learned career if some of the leading Protestants of the district had not charged themselves with the expenses of his education, which was begun under M. Jean de la Placette, the minister of Nay, He studied at Puylaurens, the Academy of Saumur, and the Academy of Sedan, receiving the degree of doctor in theology, it is said, at the age of seventeen.

At a press conference in November 2008, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Samuel Santos Lopez said, " Certainly, we think that the decision recognize independent Abkhazia and South Ossetia was fair and appropriate.

At a press conference in November 2008, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Samuel Santos Lopez said, " Certainly, we think that the decision recognize independent Abkhazia and South Ossetia was fair and appropriate.

When he received the command to smite Amalek ( 1 Samuel 15: 3 ), Saul said: For one found slain the Torah requires a sin offering 21: 1-9 ; and here so many shall be slain.

Eli asked Samuel to honestly recount to him what he had been told, and upon receiving the communication merely said that God should do what seems right to himself.

Samuel is told to seek out Saul, an animal herder said to be a head taller than his peers, and anoint him as the first King of Israel.

Eli, who was viewed negatively by many Classical Rabbis, is said to have reacted to this logic of Samuel by arguing that it was technically true, but Samuel should be put to death for making legal statements while Eli ( his mentor ) was present.

Samuel is also treated by the Classical Rabbis as a much more sympathetic character than he appears at face value in the Bible ; his annual circuit is explained as being due to his wish to spare people the task of having to journey to him ; Samuel is said to have been very rich, taking his entire household with him on the circuit so that he didn't need to impose himself on anyone's hospitality ; when Saul fell out of God's favour, Samuel is described as having grieved copiously and having prematurely aged.

The system of odd numbered rounds is said to have been originated by Samuel Pepys, Secretary to the Navy in the Restoration, as a way of economising on the use of powder, the rule until that time having been that all guns had to be fired.

Two centuries later Jonathan Swift said he was " the person of the greatest virtue this kingdom ever produced ," a sentiment with which Samuel Johnson agreed.

In addition, the PBS stations and statewide networks that aired the show often complained of the Children's Television Workshop " soaking up so much money in public television ," said veteran television producer Samuel Gibbon, who worked on the show.

As a result of this incident, Samuel said to Saul that " ou have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you as king over Israel.

A man named Ahitophel is also mentioned in 2 Samuel 23: 34, and he is said to be the father of Eliam.

:" 16 And Samuel said, ' Why then do you ask me, since the Lord has turned from you and become your enemy?