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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.
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To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, "Wanda Watkins, the last refuge of a clueless, mouthbreathing, moronic Blogging Tory".
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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.
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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.
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Spinning back to backJAMES: To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, there's nothing that focuses people's attention like a hanging every fortnight.
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_Gentleman's Magazine_, and there many a time has sat a journeyman author of his, by name Samuel Johnson, too often _impransus_.
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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.
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- 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
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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.
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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.
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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