The Beauties of Samuel Johnson. A New Edition, Being the Ninth, Wherein the Two Volumes are Comprised in One, and Arranged Under One Alphabet, with Very Considerable Additions. The Beauties of Samuel Johnson... Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous: to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Works of Mrs. Piozzi; His Life, Recently Published by Mr. Boswell, and Other Authentic Testimonies, Also, His Will, and the Sermon He Wrote for the Late Doctor Dodd


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Abyssinia's Samuel Johnson


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Uncovers African influences on the Western imagination during the eighteenth century, paying particular attention to the ways Ethiopia inspired and shaped the work of Samuel Johnson.