"Johnson" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Dr. Johnson says that the gambler is no better than a robber, because he acquires property without an equivalent. The whole gist of the argument lies here. You strip a man of fortune, or tear from his hands the earnings of ...
— Secret Band of Brothers • Jonathan Harrington Green
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... altered; the whole party are at war, and Mainwaring scarcely dares speak to me. It is time for me to be gone; I have therefore determined on leaving them, and shall spend, I hope, a comfortable day with you in town within this week. If I am as little in favour with Mr. Johnson as ever, you must come to me at 10 Wigmore street; but I hope this may not be the case, for as Mr. Johnson, with all his faults, is a man to whom that great word "respectable" is always given, and I am known to be so ...
— Persuasion • Jane Austen
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... the Committee on Biblical Revision, and he crossed the ocean fourteen times as a fraternal internuncio between the churches of Europe and America. His prodigious capacity for work made Dr. Samuel Johnson seem an idler, and his varied attainments and activities were fairly a match ...
— Recollections of a Long Life - An Autobiography • Theodore Ledyard Cuyler
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... which attracted my attention, and led me to consider my situation, and whither I was hurrying. A lecture was advertised to be delivered by the first reformed drunkard, Mr. I. J. Johnson, who visited Newburyport, and I was invited by some friends, who seemed to feel an interest, to attend and hear what he had to say. I determined after some consideration to go and hear what was to be said on the ...
— Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) - Orators and Reformers • Various
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... cit., III. 102. Waite (Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, II. 23) says Johnson was "in reality named Leucht, an Englishman by his claim—who did not know English and is believed to have ...
— Secret Societies And Subversive Movements • Nesta H. Webster
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