…other Confederate officers of the time, he lost his citizenship, of course, but this was personally returned to him by President Johnson, and with it he was relieved of most of the burden from which at that time Confederate officers were suffering. After…

…being Minshew's Guide to Tongues, was printed about 400 years ago. Dictionaries help us, but all they can do is give us usage. Johnson and Webster both acknowledge that a dictionary does not tell us the meaning of a word. It only tells us the usage.…

…the body will produce a certain emotional tension. It will also cause the individual to think in a certain way. And as Samuel Johnson pointed out, a drop of green bile in the liver has been responsible for more wars than perhaps any other single cause.…

…rather well in their time. In William Henry Ireland, a boy of 17 forged a complete Shakespearean play, and the immortal Samuel Johnson got down on his knees and kissed the edge of the manuscript. So youth does not necessarily deny precocity. The situation…

…to him to go against his own moods. He does not know whether this mood arises from his spiritual nature, or as Samuel Johnson used to say, from a drop of green bile in his gallbladder. He doesn't know where the pressure comes from, but whatever it…

…that the problem of who was right in religion gained almost the importance that we face today in trying to decide whether Johnson is better than Goldwater. The problem of religion was on the lips of every man in Damascus, in Baghdad, Basra, and other…

…to their reaction to rhythm or harmony. Some persons appear to be oblivious to harmony. Even a great intellectual like Dr. Samuel Johnson declared that poetry was nothing but crows jogging along like a trotting horse. He had no real understanding of it or…