Motto, Context, Essay: The Classical Background of Samuel Johnson's Rambler and Adventurer EssaysA helpful reference guide to the mottoes of Samuel Johnson's Rambler and Adventurer periodical essays. The author provides the context for each motto Johnson selected and relates the context to the content of the essay to which the motto is affixed. Provides a unique insight into Johnson's way of thinking as as essayist in a specific and detailed fashion. An invaluable aid to students and scholars of Johnson and 18th-century studies in general. |
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n n Johnson's essay goes well beyond the motto from Martial , and beyond Horace's satire too , in its emphasis on respect for others , for honest labor , and for technological discovery possible in a humble occupation .
n n Johnson's essay goes well beyond the motto from Martial , and beyond Horace's satire too , in its emphasis on respect for others , for honest labor , and for technological discovery possible in a humble occupation .
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Juvenal goes on to say that instead of offspring we should pray for a sound mind in a sound body ( orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano ( X , 3561 ) , having earlier said that man should leave everything to the gods , who love ...
Juvenal goes on to say that instead of offspring we should pray for a sound mind in a sound body ( orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano ( X , 3561 ) , having earlier said that man should leave everything to the gods , who love ...
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One goes off to the left , the other to the right , the same error on both counts , but each strays in different ways . When in a wood we leave the certain way , One error fools us , tho ' we various stray , Some to the left , and some ...
One goes off to the left , the other to the right , the same error on both counts , but each strays in different ways . When in a wood we leave the certain way , One error fools us , tho ' we various stray , Some to the left , and some ...
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