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2012/05/28 03:06
2012/05/28 03:06
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University of Pennsylvania. He wrote conventional academic books - on poetry, Walt Whitman and Samuel Johnson - before creating what he later termed his "accidental masterpiece," the study of...
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2012/05/27 19:17
2012/05/27 19:17
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... many readers in the eighteenth century as guides to the proper behavior of a gentleman, though Samuel Johnson sneered that they displayed "the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing...
2012/05/25 04:12
2012/05/25 04:12
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... one of these people that hugged me here I have a story with,” said Dr. Mervin Johnson about the more than 400 people that came to his retirement roast on Thursday evening. “They’re all a part...
2012/05/24 14:42
2012/05/24 14:42
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... we short circuit the push that only a back against the wall mentality can produce. Samuel Johnson said that the knowledge of one’s imminent execution wonderfully focuses the mind, and...
2012/05/24 09:10
2012/05/24 09:10
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Meter and Poetic Form," a well-regarded textbook for understanding poetry, and an analysis of Samuel Johnson. "Samuel Johnson was his great hero," said John Scanlan, a professor of 18th century...
2012/05/24 07:12
2012/05/24 07:12
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... it just selections from the great essayists, including William Hazlitt, Thomas de Quincey and Samuel Johnson. Works such as Thomas Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population, Gilbert...
2012/05/24 06:18
2012/05/24 06:18
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Meter and Poetic Form,” a well-regarded textbook for understanding poetry, and an analysis of Samuel Johnson. “Samuel Johnson was his great hero,” said John Scanlan, a professor of 18th century...
2012/05/24 04:26
2012/05/24 04:26
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Emmanuel College places a lot of emphasis on character and integrity. But the school also has been adding quite a few athletic programs recently, and the Lions have a lot of desire to do...
2012/05/24 00:56
2012/05/24 00:56
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.- The 17-year-old accused in Tuesday's violent home invasion and rape surrendered to police. Sources say Gregory Hodge turned himself in. Investigators say he forced his way into a...
2012/05/23 07:17
2012/05/23 07:17
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Chris Johnson and Mark and Helen Johnson; and her four grandchildren, Jace, Nicholas, Tessa and Samuel Johnson. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, May 25, at Fountain Hills...
2012/05/23 01:09
2012/05/23 01:09
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A man who's struggled his entire life with mental illness is accused of killing another man and his family said the state could have prevented it. Police said Thaddeus Odom beat another patient to...
2012/05/18 19:26
2012/05/18 19:26
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... Gottschall’s book to such students of the mechanics of storytelling as William Empson, Samuel Johnson, Lionel Trilling, Virginia Woolf, Edmund Wilson, or Randall Jarrell, all of whom...
2012/05/18 17:27
2012/05/18 17:27
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NEW YORK (CNS) -- The great 18th-century lexicographer and sage Samuel Johnson once observed that "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." He was referring, of course, not to genuine love of...
2012/05/17 09:21
2012/05/17 09:21
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... been accepted to the University of Connecticut," said proud Principal Ed Sapienza. Dr. Samuel Johnson took nearly a decade to produce his famous dictionary in 1755. It won't take that...
2012/05/16 16:50
2012/05/16 16:50
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... They said he had a bag containing 0.85 grams of crack cocaine in his pants pocket. •Samuel Johnson, 42, 219 Park Ave. and Detroit — Possession of marijuana, driving while his vehicle...
2012/05/16 11:31
2012/05/16 11:31
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... impeachment against him. On this date In 1763, the English lexicographer, author and wit Samuel Johnson first met his future biographer, James Boswell. In 1770, Marie Antoinette, age 14,...
2012/05/15 16:04
2012/05/15 16:04
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... Moors, Malays, Lascars, the Tartar and Chinese." Before him, 18th century writer Samuel Johnson felt that, "by seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can...
2012/05/15 10:47
2012/05/15 10:47
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... properly belong to the concert hall and will tend to grate with repeated listening. As Samuel Johnson put it, 'the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted and the mind can only...
2012/05/14 05:04
2012/05/14 05:04
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The great English essayist and lexicographer Samuel Johnson remarked about his critics: "A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse...
2012/05/14 02:47
2012/05/14 02:47
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Usage” and read all of it. How important, and why, is reading for those who want to write well? Samuel Johnson said, “I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.”...