Samuel Johnson
historical figure · 4 works · 8 mentions · 8 anchored passages · author page
Dr. Johnson · Johnson · Doctor Johnson · the great Doctor Johnson
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Eighteenth-century writer cited as an example of a Tory and High Churchman amid a Whig-leaning milieu.
Samuel Johnson, standing forth as a Tory and a High Churchman amongst Whigs and Free Thinkers;
Samuel Johnson was in morals a thorough-going utilitarian, but he never displayed the remotest interest in the amendment of the laws of England.
Johnson, the moralist of the preceding generation, had admitted, and Paley, still the accepted English theologian of the day, had advocated, the fundamental dogma of Benthamism, that the aim of existence was the attainment of happiness.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
English lexicographer whose dictionary definition of 'the people' is invoked to support a collective, political reading of the term.
“ “The people,” says Johnson, are “those who compose a community.
and those of the great Doctor Johnson were exerted to the utmost, in favour of the passive obedience due to sovereignty or supremacy.
The Genius of the Common Law
English author cited as the earliest in a line of writers refuting popular criticism of lawyers.
The common topics of vulgar abuse have been abundantly refuted by English authors, lay and professional, from Dr.
Johnson rightly observed, you have no business to think you know it until the Court has decided).
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Lexicographer cited for his broad dictionary definition of the term 'estovers'.
Johnson, who defines it broadly as “necessaries allowed by law,” to Dr.