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 Macaulay's Essay, "Dr. Johnson And His Times."
Johnson grown old -- Johnson in the fullness of his fame and in the enjoyment of a competent future -- is better known to us than any other man in history.
Johnson came among them the solitary specimen of a past age, the last survivor of the genuine race of Grub Street hacks; the last of that generation of authors whose abject misery and whose dissolute manners had furnished inexhaustible matter to the satirical genius of Pope.
Johnson was impolite, not because he wanted benevolence, but because small things appeared smaller to him than to people who had never known what it was to live for fourpence-halfpenny a day.
www.blupete.com /Literature/Essays/Best/MacaulayDrJohnson.htm   (2067 words)

  
 Dr Johnson's House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dr Johnson's House in the City of London is a former home of the 18th century English writer Samuel Johnson.
Built in 1700, it is a rare example of a house of its era which survives in the City of London (note that this refers only to the Square Mile, as there are many other houses of this period elsewhere in Greater London).
Johnson lived and worked in the house from 1748 to 1759, and he compiled his famous A Dictionary of the English Language there.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dr_Johnson's_House   (193 words)

  
 An Introduction to Samuel Johnson's Dictionary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Johnson was to be paid £1,575 in installments, out of which he was to defray expenses and pay for any help he received.
Johnson was aware that he faced a huge task; he visualized his effort not only as a scholar filling a void, but also as an Englishman contributing to the national literature.
Johnson's friend Dr. William Adams marveled that Johnson expected to finish the project in three years; Adams pointed out that it had taken the French Academy's forty members forty years to compile the French dictionary (in fact, it had taken the French Academy fifty-five years).
garamond.stanford.edu /depts/spc/johnson/intro.html   (418 words)

  
 Johnson, Samuel, English author. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Johnson’s first work of lasting importance, and the one that permanently established his reputation in his own time, was his Dictionary of the English Language (1755), the first comprehensive lexicographical work on English ever undertaken.
Johnson’s Lives of the Poets (1779–1781), his last major work, comprises ten small volumes of acute criticism, characterized, as is all of Johnson’s work, by both classical values and sensitive perception.
Johnson, as he is universally known, was England’s first full-dress man of letters, and his mind and personality helped to create the traditions that have guided English taste and criticism.
www.bartleby.com /65/jo/JohnsonEng.html   (690 words)

  
 Samuel Johnson -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Johnson's final major work was the (Click link for more info and facts about Lives of the English Poets) Lives of the English Poets, a project commissioned by a consortium of London booksellers.
Johnson died in 1784 and is buried in (A famous Gothic church in London on the site of a former Benedictine monastery) Westminster Abbey.
Johnson's fame is due in part to the success of Boswell's (Click link for more info and facts about Life of Johnson) Life of Johnson.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/samuel_johnson.htm   (1295 words)

  
 Samuel Johnson
Johnson, was one of England's greatest literary figures, whose witty asides are still frequently quoted in print today.
Johnson was at the centre of a literary circle which included such figures as Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, and David Garrick, and founded the Literary Club.
As well as to his output, Johnson owes his reputation to his biographer, James Boswell, who presents us with a picture of a very pious man of Tory common sense, and kindly heart, beneath a sometimes unkempt and gruff exterior.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/samuel_johnson.html   (521 words)

  
 Dr. Frank Johnson
Soderstrom, K. and Johnson, F. (2001) Zebra finch CB1 cannabinoid receptor: Pharmacology and in vivo and in vitro effects of activation.
Johnson, F., Hohmann, S.E., DiStefano, P.S. and Bottjer, S.W. Neurotrophins suppress apoptosis induced by deafferentation of an avian motor-cortical region.
Johnson, F., and Bottjer, S.W. Afferent influences over cell death and birth during development of a cortical nucleus necessary for learned vocal behavior in zebra finches.
www.psy.fsu.edu /faculty/johnson.dp.html   (222 words)

  
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Dr. Johnson filed a post-judgment motion seeking, alternatively, a judgment as a matter of law, a new trial, or a remittitur of the punitive-damages awards.
Dr. Johnson moved for a JML on the invasion-of-privacy claims, both at the close of the Stewarts' case and at the close of all the evidence, and the trial court denied the motions.
Dr. Johnson appeals, contending that he was entitled to a JML on the invasion-of-privacy claims.
www.wallacejordan.com /decisions/Opinions2002/1011114.htm   (2179 words)

  
 Biography - Dr. Marc Johnson
Johnson, dean of the College of Agriculture at Kansas State University as well as the director of the Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service, leads 60 teams with projects concerning everything from 4-H activities to biotechnology experiments.
Dr. Johnson became KSU Dean of Agriculture in March 1994 after serving as interim dean since September 1992.
Johnson earned his bachelor's degree in biology from Emporia State University, a master's of technology in international development in economics from North Carolina State University and a master's in economics and a doctorate in agricultural economics both from Michigan State University.
www.adec.edu /admin/bios/johnson_m.html   (277 words)

  
 Dr. George Johnson's Bio Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
George B. Johnson was born in 1942 in Virginia, went to college in New Hampshire (Dartmouth), went to graduate school in California (Stanford), and is Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis, where he has taught biology and genetics to undergraduates for 30 years.
Also Professor of Genetics at Washington University’s School of Medicine, Dr. Johnson is a student of population genetics and evolution, renowned for his pioneering studies of genetic variability.
St Louis residents are familiar with Dr. Johnson as the author of a weekly science column, ON SCIENCE, in the St.
www.txtwriter.com /George   (335 words)

  
 Dr. Amy J. Johnson - History Department - Evans School of Humanities and Social Sciences - Berry College
Johnson joined the Berry faculty in 1998 after earning her MA in political science from Emory University and PhD in history and Middle Eastern studies from Harvard University.
Johnson's book, entitled Reconstructing Rural Egypt: Dr. Ahmed Hussein and the History of Egyptian Development, was published in hardback by Syracuse University Press and in paperback by the American University in Cairo Press in 2004.
Before her death, Dr. Johnson was in the process of co-editing and contributing a chapter to a book entitled Re-Envisioning Eygpt, 1919-1952 with Dr. Arthur Goldschmidt of Pennsylvania State University and Dr. Barak A. Salmoni of the US Naval Postgraduate School.
www.berry.edu /academics/humanities/history/johnson.asp   (395 words)

  
 Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum
Samuel Johnson, one of the most famous figures of the 18th century, was born in the city on the 18th September 1709.
Dr Johnson's birthday cake proved a popular draw and the release of the special Johnson 50p coins was also a great success.
The contribution that Dr Johnson made through his Dictionary of the English Language, has been of such national importance that the Queen approved the issue of a special commemorative coin to mark the 250th anniversary of the dictionary's first publication.
www.lichfield.gov.uk /sjmuseum   (1076 words)

  
 Commonweal: Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage. - book reviews
The Savage that Johnson presents is, however, the central figure in a moral allegory: a gifted outcast challenging society's hypocritical morality--he is passionate in his attacks on the slave trade and the genocidal effects of taking civilization to the colonies--and offering in his poetic vision a form of truth accessible only to the artist.
Holmes traces Johnson's movements to London: he was a failed school teacher and struggling journalist clearly charmed by the worldly, gracious, and ambivalently attractive Savage.
Johnson was sympathetic to his anti-establishment politics and perhaps desperate to escape through him the hopeless marriage he had contracted.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1252/is_n19_v121/ai_15892225   (1291 words)

  
 Kenneth M. Johnson / Faculty LU Sociology Dept.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Johnson completed his graduate training at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and received his undergraduate training at the University of Michigan.
In 2002, Dr. Johnson was named a Loyola Faculty Scholar for his sustained record of excellence in research and teaching.
Johnson's research focuses on how the U.S. population is redistributing itself and on the implications such demographic change has for the people and institutions of the nation.
www.luc.edu /depts/sociology/johnson/bio.html   (882 words)

  
 Dr. Timothy Johnson: Good Morning America on WCHS-TV8
Timothy Johnson, who has achieved distinction as one of the nation's leading medical communicators of health care information, has provided commentary on medical problems and answers for viewers of ABC News "Good Morning America" since the program's debut in November, 1975.
Johnson holds joint positions in medicine at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, placing him in the mainstream of the nation's top medical resources.
Johnson was the winner of the 1986-87 William Harvey Award for "outstanding reporting on hypertension" given by the American Medical Writers Association, National High Blood Pressure Education Corporation and Squibb Corporation.
www.wchstv.com /abc/gma/timothyjohnson.shtml   (415 words)

  
 Dr. Scott Johnson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dr. Johnson specializes in gentle, effective treatment for all types of back, neck and head pain.
Dr. Johnson also emphasizes the practice of "Clinical Nutrition" with many of his patients.
This is the principle that Dr. Johnson is committed to.
roads2health.com /DrJohnson   (121 words)

  
 Dr. Robert Johnson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dr. Johnson worked as a research associate in the Office of Institutional Research at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville before establishing and becoming the Director of the Office of Institutional Research and Planning at Alcorn State University in Mississippi.
Johnson also coordinated institutional planning and evaluation of programs and personnel; served as general overseer of computing activities; and served as principal university coordinator for the University's self-reviews.
Dr. Johnson has served as a member of evaluation teams, consultant, evaluation and proposal reader for many organizations which include the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Educators (FIPSE), and the United States Department of Labor, Title III, Orleans Parish Schools.
www.umes.edu /deps/administration/exec_vice_president/exec_vp_bio.html   (444 words)

  
 The Mayor's of Buffalo, New York -Dr. Ebenezer Johnson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The population at the turn of the century was approximately twelve men and their families.
The firm of Johnson and Wilkeson worked on a project that was associated with the building of the canal in Tonawanda - they had a dam built at the mouth of Tonawanda creek.
Johnson was again elected in 1828, as the Erie County Surrogate.
www.buffalonian.com /history/industry/mayors/Johnson.htm   (1745 words)

  
 Johnson, Samuel --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Johnson English critic, biographer, essayist, poet, and lexicographer, regarded as one of the greatest figures of 18th-century life and letters.
In 1765 Johnson received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Trinity College, Dublin, and 10 years later he was awarded the Doctor of Civil Laws from the University of Oxford.
He never referred to himself as Dr. Johnson, though a number of his contemporaries did, and Boswell's consistent use of the title in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. made it popular.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9108566   (783 words)

  
 Dr. Johnson Bio
Johnson is a native of the Hampton Roads area and a third generation Hampton graduate.
Johnson returned to graduate school to pursue her doctorate in Pharmacology with emphasis in Toxicology at Duke University in 1991.
Johnson has published in several peer-reviewed journals and has authored a chapter on biomarkers for the American Chemical Society.
www.hamptonu.edu /Pharm/DJohnsonBioNew.htm   (141 words)

  
 Dr Johnson's House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dr Johnson’s House is one of the few residential houses of its age still surviving in the City of London.
Built in 1700, it was a home and workplace for Samuel Johnson from 1748-1759, and it was here that he compiled the first comprehensive English Dictionary.
Situated to the north of Fleet Street, the house is found among amaze of courtyards and passages that are a reminder of historic London.
www.drjh.dircon.co.uk /indexmain.htm   (93 words)

  
 Dr. Johnson
Johnson takes healthy foxhounds, which are similar to beagles and are known for their endurance, and performs pneumonectomies on them (pneumonectomy is all or partial removal of an organ - in this case the lung).
Robert Johnson states in his grant request that he will merely be confirming what he already knows from his previous 11 years of tests.
Southwest Medical Center is not a veterinary clinic, however Dr. Johnson seems to think it is. On Dec. 1, 1997, when one of our activists talked with Dr. Johnson he justified his use of animals in testing by stating that both animals and humans would benefit by the tests.
www.animalconnectiontx.org /issues/DrJ.htm   (506 words)

  
 DEMOCRACY: Dr. Johnson 09.06.03   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
However history proves Dr. Johnson to be wrong in the international sphere.
Money-making was the major reason for the British colonial exploits in the 19th century, the British/French/US exploitation of Iraq and Persia and the US exploitation of Central and South America in the 20th century together with the current 'oil' war in Iraq.
Johnson was a religious man and an epigrammatical critic of human nature, as The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) shows.
www.stanford.edu /group/wais/Democracy/democracy_DrJohnson(090603).html   (296 words)

  
 Dowling College - Dr. Suzanne Johnson was interviewed by CNN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Suzanne Johnson, Professor of Psychology, was interviewed by CNN for a segment on same sex marriage and parenting that was scheduled to appear on the national news network on Friday, November 21 and Saturday, November 22.
Suzanne M. Johnson and co-author of "The Gay Baby Boom," was also featured in the Personal Health section of the July 1st issue of The New York Times.
Johnson and Dr. O’Connor (co-author and life partner) conducted extensive research in 1999 and 2000 representing the largest national assessment of families headed by lesbians and gay men.
www.dowling.edu /news/year2003/johnson.shtm   (214 words)

  
 Norman L. Johnson, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dr. Norman L. Johnson was recently Project Leader of a highly successful industrial collaboration at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Dr. Johnson is the founder of the Symbiotic Intelligence Project, which is an investigation into the combination of the unique abilities of the Internet and human problem-solving to create a capability greater than the sum of the parts.
Dr. Johnson is the recipient of a variety of honors, including a DOE Award of Excellence in 1996 and a LANL Distinguished Performance Award in 2000.
ishi.lanl.gov   (297 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Samuel Johnson: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
I read Johnson in the same way that I read Jane Austen, for the pure joy--and the celebration--of their beautifully balanced sentences.
Johnson's sentences are so beautifully composed that when reading him, I am apt to focus mainly on his sentence structures rather than what he says.
Reading Boswell and Johnson together is an utter delight -- moving from the formality, grace and power of Johnson to the smaller, more intimate pleasures of Boswell gives one the feeling of having captured, in the adventurous peregrinations of these two inimitable characters, the very breadth and depth of eighteenth century English writing.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0192840428?v=glance   (2178 words)

  
 Samuel Johnson
Beginners might start with my Guide to Samuel Johnson, which includes introductions to Johnson and his works and selected bibliographies on some of the major works.
The Early Biographies of Samuel Johnson (Univ. of Chicago Press)
Samuel Johnson and the Impact of Print (Princeton Univ. Press)
www.andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/Johnson   (277 words)

  
 The Everliving Story - With Dr. Earl Johnson - Today's Broadcast
Earl M. Johnson's practical, verse-by-verse Bible teaching will help you understand and apply God's Word to your life and the life of your family and church.
Johnson received an Honorary Doctorate of Ministry degree in June of 1998.
Johnson fought there, but not in a way you might expect.
www.gracebiblebaptist.org /broadcast.htm   (268 words)

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