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Samuel Johnson

(1709—1784) author and lexicographer


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(1709–84),

English lexicographer and author, in 1775 was employed by the ministers in power to write a tract, Taxation No Tyranny, in answer to the resolutions and addresses of the ...

Subjects: literature.

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Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784), author and lexicographer
in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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Johnson, Samuel
in The Oxford Companion to English Literature

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Johnson, Samuel
in The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature

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Johnson, Samuel
in A Dictionary of British History

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Works by Samuel Johnson
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Johnson's Dictionary

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Rasselas

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