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Description:Excerpt from Th Essays of Samuel Johnson: Selected From the Rambler, 1750-1752; The Adventurer, 1753; And the Idler, 1758-1760; With Biographical Introduction and Notes In the early years of the Eighteenth Century the dim and unpretending book-shop of Michael Johnson, at the corner of the Market-place in Lichfield, was one of the established resorts of the more leisured and learned inhabitants of that quaint and somewhat sleepy old city. In the closing years of the Nineteenth Century the house still stands, and has become a place of pilgrimage, for there - on the 18th September 1709 - that "great master of reason," Samuel Johnson, was born. Booksellers in the reign of George the First were not to be found in every town; yet it is charitable to suppose that Lichfield, being the seat of a bishopric, must needs even then have been also a seat of learning. There, accordingly, Michael Johnson fixed his abode and proffered his wares. That he did so with some degree of success is evident from the following sentence from a letter written from Nentham to Lord Gower's chaplain in 1716: - "Johnson, the Lichfield librarian, is now here; he propagates learning all over this diocese, and advanceth knowledge to its just height; all the clergy here are his pupils, and suck all they have from him." Though old Mr. Johnson kept a shop, the shop would not have kept him if he had not acted occasionally on the aggressive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Th Essays of Samuel Johnson: Selected From the Rambler, 1750-1752; The Adventurer, 1753; And the Idler, 1758-1760; With Biographical Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Th Essays of Samuel Johnson: Selected From the Rambler, 1750-1752; The Adventurer, 1753; And the Idler, 1758-1760; With Biographical Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from Th Essays of Samuel Johnson: Selected From the Rambler, 1750-1752; The Adventurer, 1753; And the Idler, 1758-1760; With Biographical Introduction and Notes In the early years of the Eighteenth Century the dim and unpretending book-shop of Michael Johnson, at the corner of the Market-place in Lichfield, was one of the established resorts of the more leisured and learned inhabitants of that quaint and somewhat sleepy old city. In the closing years of the Nineteenth Century the house still stands, and has become a place of pilgrimage, for there - on the 18th September 1709 - that "great master of reason," Samuel Johnson, was born. Booksellers in the reign of George the First were not to be found in every town; yet it is charitable to suppose that Lichfield, being the seat of a bishopric, must needs even then have been also a seat of learning. There, accordingly, Michael Johnson fixed his abode and proffered his wares. That he did so with some degree of success is evident from the following sentence from a letter written from Nentham to Lord Gower's chaplain in 1716: - "Johnson, the Lichfield librarian, is now here; he propagates learning all over this diocese, and advanceth knowledge to its just height; all the clergy here are his pupils, and suck all they have from him." Though old Mr. Johnson kept a shop, the shop would not have kept him if he had not acted occasionally on the aggressive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Th Essays of Samuel Johnson: Selected From the Rambler, 1750-1752; The Adventurer, 1753; And the Idler, 1758-1760; With Biographical Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Th Essays of Samuel Johnson: Selected From the Rambler, 1750-1752; The Adventurer, 1753; And the Idler, 1758-1760; With Biographical Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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