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The Letter to Chesterfield (February 1755) was Samuel Johnson's response to what some believed to be Lord Chesterfield's opportunistic endorsement of his A Dictionary of the English Language. Although Chesterfield was patron of the Proposal for the Dictionary , he made no moves to further the progress of the Dictionary until seven years after ...
A History and Defence of Magna Charta. Subtitle Shewing the Manner of its being Obtained from King John, with its Preservation and Final Establishment in the Succeeding Reigns; with an Introductory Discourse, Containing a Short Account of the Rise and Progress of National Freedom, from the Invasion of Cæsar to the Present Times.
Samuel Johnson (18 September [O.S. 7 September] 1709 – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer.
The City of Fall River; its city clerk's office, which helped sort out the mystery of Herbert Johnson's birth certificate; and its Board of Elections, which helped in the search for the truth ...
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791) by James Boswell is a biography of English writer and literary critic Samuel Johnson.The work was from the beginning a universal critical and popular success, and represents a landmark in the development of the modern genre of biography.
Emily Wright Harold (c. May 29, 1820 – May 8, 1872) was a 19th-century American wife and mother who lived most of her life in Greeneville, Tennessee.In 1872, Harold was accused (in an anonymous letter) of engaging in an extramarital affair with her neighbor, former U.S. President Andrew Johnson.
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (/ ˈ b ɒ z w ɛ l,-w əl /; 29 October 1740 [1] – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh.He is best known for his biography of the English writer Samuel Johnson, Life of Samuel Johnson, which is commonly said to be the greatest biography written in the English language.
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