This volume contains 24 of Samuel Johnson's essays on the great social, economic and political issues of his time. These include Taxation No Tyranny, in which Johnson defended the British Crown against the American revolutionaries, An Introduction to the Political State of Great Britain, Thoughts on the Coronation of King George III, and The Patriot, which is one of Johnson's principal writings during the American Revolution. In his introduction, Donald J. Greene advises that it may help to understand Johnson's political thinking if we view it in the tradition of what might be called...
This volume contains 24 of Samuel Johnson's essays on the great social, economic and political issues of his time. These include Taxation No Tyranny, ...
PREFACE: To publish whatever has fallen from the pen of a celebrated author, has been reckoned among the vices of our time but those who admire great or extraordinary qualities, have also a desire to know the individual to whom they belong, and to have his likeness, and his portrait, as if he were one of ourselves. This Journal of - Dr. Johnson exhibits his mind when he was alone, when no one was looking on, and when no one was expected to adopt his thoughts, or to be influenced by them in this respect, it differs from the conversations and anecdotes already pub lished it has also another...
PREFACE: To publish whatever has fallen from the pen of a celebrated author, has been reckoned among the vices of our time but those who admire great ...
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709 84) is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of English literature, as a poet, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. This collected edition of his works commissioned by the publisher within hours of Johnson's death, such was his celebrity was published in 1787 in eleven volumes, edited by his literary executor, the musicologist Sir John Hawkins. Volume 1 is entirely devoted to a biography of Johnson by Hawkins, his close friend. Although Boswell's 1791 Life is much better known, Hawkins had been acquainted with Johnson for far longer,...
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709 84) is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of English literature, as a poet, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, ed...
One of the most celebrated individuals of English literature, Samuel Johnson (1709 84) was a defining figure of his age. In addition to his celebrated labours as a lexicographer, Johnson distinguished himself as a poet, essayist, critic, biographer and editor. The writer and society hostess Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741 1821) was an unconventional woman of great intellectual vivacity. She became a close friend of Johnson, whom she met through her first husband, the brewer Henry Thrale, whose ailing business Johnson did much to support. As well as writing essays, poetry, memoirs and travel...
One of the most celebrated individuals of English literature, Samuel Johnson (1709 84) was a defining figure of his age. In addition to his celebrated...
Originally printed in 1904 as a limited edition of two hundred and fifty copies, this book contains a reprint of the 1716 edition of Sir Thomas Browne's Christian Morals. Brown offers a range of advice on subjects such as charity, true goodness and justice. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Browne's work or in eighteenth-century British philosophy.
Originally printed in 1904 as a limited edition of two hundred and fifty copies, this book contains a reprint of the 1716 edition of Sir Thomas Browne...
