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  • Reading Daniel Rasmussen's interesting if flawed account of a violent slave uprising in Louisiana in 1811, I found myself repeatedly recalling Samuel Johnson's dictum on women in the pulpit.

    Rebel slaves, silenced Jonathan Yardley 2011

  • To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, "Wanda Watkins, the last refuge of a clueless, mouthbreathing, moronic Blogging Tory".

    The party of the troops? LuLu 2009

  • Phil Jupitas just looked bored, and Josie Long was unprepared and told a rambling and confused anecdote about David Hume's famous deathbed scene, calling Samuel Johnson a Catholic, and mixing Adam Smith for James Boswell.

    REVIEW: Nine Lessons And Carols For Godless People Jack of Kent 2008

  • Phil Jupitas just looked bored, and Josie Long was unprepared and told a rambling and confused anecdote about David Hume's famous deathbed scene, calling Samuel Johnson a Catholic, and mixing Adam Smith for James Boswell.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Jack of Kent 2008

  • Spinning back to backJAMES: To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, there's nothing that focuses people's attention like a hanging every fortnight.

    Love, War & Running For President 2008

  • _Gentleman's Magazine_, and there many a time has sat a journeyman author of his, by name Samuel Johnson, too often _impransus_.

    The Nether World George Gissing 1880

  • Rahm Emanuel might say that you never want a serious crisis go to waste, but to paraphrase Samuel Johnson, a crisis also serve to concentrate one's mind.

    American Thinker 2009

  • - Dr. Johnson aka Samuel Johnson lol the kid that posted a thread of his GF last night (te ugly fat one) and he said "Se got a donk" I ROFL

    GameBattles News 2009

  • He made friends with a man named James Boswell, who eventually wrote a detailed biography of Samuel Johnson, which is why we know so much about him.

    APM: Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac RSS Feed 2008

  • He made friends with a man named James Boswell, who eventually wrote a detailed biography of Samuel Johnson, which is why we know so much about him.

    APM: Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac RSS Feed 2008

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  • "Johnson, Samuel Known as "Dr. Johnson.” 1709-1784. British writer and lexicographer. The leading figure among writers in the English language in the second half of the 18th century, he wrote Dictionary of the English Language (1755) and Lives of the Poets (1779-1781)."

    December 22, 2011