Samuel Johnson: A Layman's ReligionUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1964 - 240 pages Influence of Johnson's own religious interpretation on his life and work. |
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Page 34
... possessed a sensible man . You know his extreme zeal for orthodoxy . But did you ever hear what he told me himself ? That he had made it a rule not to admit Dr. Clarke's name in his Dictionary . This , however , wore off . At some ...
... possessed a sensible man . You know his extreme zeal for orthodoxy . But did you ever hear what he told me himself ? That he had made it a rule not to admit Dr. Clarke's name in his Dictionary . This , however , wore off . At some ...
Page 91
... possession of a man's mind , and so en- grosses his faculties , as to mingle thoughts perhaps he is not himself conscious of with almost all his conceptions , and in- fluence his whole behaviour " ( Sermon XVI ) . Inasmuch as the ...
... possession of a man's mind , and so en- grosses his faculties , as to mingle thoughts perhaps he is not himself conscious of with almost all his conceptions , and in- fluence his whole behaviour " ( Sermon XVI ) . Inasmuch as the ...
Page 224
... possession . " The Sermons of Samuel Johnson , " MP , XL ( Feb. , 1943 ) , 258 . Anna Seward , who disliked Johnson , attacked his religious character after his death in a series of letters contributed to the Gentleman's Magazine under ...
... possession . " The Sermons of Samuel Johnson , " MP , XL ( Feb. , 1943 ) , 258 . Anna Seward , who disliked Johnson , attacked his religious character after his death in a series of letters contributed to the Gentleman's Magazine under ...
Contents
Johnson and William Law | 3 |
Johnson and Samuel Clarke | 27 |
The Atonement | 46 |
Copyright | |
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