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Samuel Johnson's Childhood Illnesses and the King's Evil
SAMUEL JOHNSON'S CHILDHOOD ILLNESSES AND THE KING'S EVIL by LAWRENCE C. McHENRY, JR. AND RONALD MAC KEITH 'HERE is a brave boy,' proclaimed George Hector,* when he brought Samuel Johnson into the world. From this moment and throughout most of his childhood, young Sam was harassed by a variety of afflictions that troubled his daily existence, but did not prevent him from eventually becoming one of England's outstanding literary figures. Samuel Johnson's adult illnesses and the history of his childhood have been described by many writers, but no separate work is available on his childhood medical history. The purpose ofthis paper is to describe Johnson's childhood medical disorders and their consequences. The principal source of information on this period in Johnson's life is from an autobiographical sketch, An account of the life of Dr. Samuel Johnson from his birth to his eleventh year, written by himself. Johnson apparently called this his 'Annals' and his two principal biographers, Boswell and Hawkins, did not know of its existence. This was written when he was 55 years old and was 'among the mass of papers which were ordered to be committed to the flames a few days before his death.'** Johnson's 'Annals' gives a record of his early affections, but it contains a rather questionable medical implication that has been perpetuated as fact. This is that Johnson developed tuberculosis during the first few weeks of his life. We propose to point out that this is unlikely and to show that it is much more probable that he developed tuberculosis later, when he was about two years old. -
“At the Instance of Benjamin Franklin” a Brief History of the Library Company of Philadelphia Francesco Lazzarini, Benjamin Franklin
“At the Instance of Benjamin Franklin” A Brief History of the Library Company of Philadelphia Francesco Lazzarini, Benjamin Franklin. Marble sculpture, ca. 1792, commissioned by William Bingham for the Library Company’s first building. “At the Instance of Benjamin Franklin” A Brief History of the Library Company of Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA: The Library Company of Philadelphia 1314 Locust Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107 2015 ©2015 by the Library Company of Philadelphia 1314 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107 All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN 978-0-914076-46-9 Cover illustration: James Reid Lambdin, Benjamin Franklin. Oil on canvas, 1880. Purchased by the Library Company, 1880. 4 n July 1, 1731, Benjamin Franklin and a number of his fellow members of the Junto drew up “Articles of Agreement” to Ofound a library. The Junto was a discussion group of young men seeking social, economic, intellectual, and political advancement. When they foundered on a point of fact, they needed a printed authority to set- tle the divergence of opinion. In colonial Pennsylvania at the time there were not many books. Standard English reference works were expensive and difficult to obtain. Franklin and his friends were mostly mechanics of moderate means. None alone could have afforded a representative li- brary, nor, indeed, many imported books. By pooling their resources in pragmatic Franklinian fashion, they could. The contribution of each cre- ated the book capital of all. Fifty subscribers invested forty shillings each and promised to pay ten shillings a year thereafter to buy books and maintain a shareholder’s library. -
II. Hannah More: Concise Biography
DISSERTATION Titel der Dissertation HANNAH MORE: MORALIZING THE BRITISH NATION Verfasserin Mag. phil. Helga-Maria Kopecky angestrebter akademischer Grad Doktorin der Philosophie (Dr. phil.) Wien, 2014 Studienkennzahl lt. Studienblatt: A 092 343 Dissertationsgebiet lt. Studienblatt: Anglistik und Amerikanistik Betreut von: o. Univ. Prof. Dr. Margarete Rubik 2 For Gerald ! 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my great appreciation to those who assisted me in various ways in this project: to my first supervisor, o. Professor Dr. Margarete Rubik, for guiding me patiently and with never ending encouragement and friendliness through a difficult matter with her expertise; to my second supervisor, ao. Professor Dr. Franz Wöhrer, for his valuable feedback; to the English and American Studies Library as well as the Inter-loan Department of the Library of the University of Vienna; the National Library of Australia; and last, but certainly not least, to my family. It was their much appreciated willingness to accept an absent wife, mother and grandmother over a long period, which ultimately made this work at all possible. Thank you so much! 4 Of all the principles that can operate upon the human mind, the most powerful is – Religion. John Bowles 5 Table of Contents page I. Introduction General remarks ……………………………………………………. 9 Research materials ………………………………………………... 12 Aims of this thesis ………………………………………………… 19 Arrangement of individual chapters ...…………………………... 22 II. Hannah More: Concise Biography Early Years in Bristol ……………………………………………….. 24 The London Experience and the Bluestockings ………………... 26 Return to Bristol and New Humanitarian Interests ................... 32 The Abolitionist .......................................................................... 34 Reforming the Higher Ranks ..................................................... 36 The Tribute to Patriotism ........................................................... 40 Teaching the Poor: Schools for the Mendips ............................ -
Democracy’ in Somerset and Beyond
Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-89755-6 - Romanticism, Revolution and Language: The Fate of the Word from Samuel Johnson to George Eliot John Beer Excerpt More information chapter 1 ‘Democracy’ in Somerset and beyond The political impact of the French Revolution in England was strangely oblique, even when one remembers that it was largely being experienced at one remove. My concern here is not only with some examples of that oblique reaction but with language generally, and with the manner in which the growing questioning of authority during the period reflected a more profound alteration, taking place over a much longer period – a movement from what might be termed the language of fidelity to the cultivation of dialects that could be regarded as more critically oriented. To put the matter another way, whereas in medieval times writers had been so close to the religion of their surrounding culture that they did not need to think about the possible religious implications of their language, by the middle of the twentieth century, they would have become so self-conscious and self-critical that they could not write anything containing such implications and not be aware of possible commenting voices ranging from the harshly critical to the warmly favourable. The 1790s, I shall maintain, provided a crucial juncture for this development. In addition, however, attention may be drawn to recent emphases in the writing of history by which the possibility of concentrating on a small and particular detail and expanding one’s attention from there can be explored, or, alternately, one may begin by proceeding to the widest possible extreme and moving inward. -
Sephardic Hebrew Bibles of the Kennicott Collection1
BABELAO 5 (2016), p. 127-168 © ABELAO (Belgium) Sephardic Hebrew Bibles of the 1 Kennicott Collection By Ma Teresa Ortega-Monasterio CSIC, Madrid (Spain) he Bodleian Library holds one of the best collections of Hebrew manuscripts in the world. Some of the most T representative Hebrew bibles copied in the Iberian Pen- insula are in this library, such as all included in the Kennicott collection, made up of nine bibles. Kenn 1 is the famous Ken- nicott Bible, which has been already studied, which I am not going to include in my work2. The Kennicott manuscripts trans- ferred from the Radcliffe Library, where Benjamin Kennicott (1718-1783) had been librarian, to the Bodleian in 1879. 1 This work has been carried out working directly with the manuscripts at the Bodleian Library, during my stay as visiting scholar at the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in Oxford, Hilary Term, 2014 and within the framework of the research project Legado de Sefarad. La produc- ción material e intelectual del judaísmo sefardí bajomedieval (Ref. FFI2012-38451) and Patrimonio Cultural Escrito de los Judíos en la Penín- sula Ibérica (Ref. FFI2012-33809). 2 The Kennicott Bible. Facsimile editions, London, 1985; B. NARKISS and A. COHEN-MUSHLIN, The Kennicott Bible, London, 1985. 128 M.T. ORTEGA-MONASTERIO We have no specific information about how Kennicott gath- ered those manuscripts. But we know that one of his main pro- jects was the study of the text of the Bible. In order to achieve this work, he collated a large amount of manuscripts during all 3 his life and published a dissertation comparing different texts2F . -
Black's Guide to Devonshire
$PI|c>y » ^ EXETt R : STOI Lundrvl.^ I y. fCamelford x Ho Town 24j Tfe<n i/ lisbeard-- 9 5 =553 v 'Suuiland,ntjuUffl " < t,,, w;, #j A~ 15 g -- - •$3*^:y&« . Pui l,i<fkl-W>«? uoi- "'"/;< errtland I . V. ',,, {BabburomheBay 109 f ^Torquaylll • 4 TorBa,, x L > \ * Vj I N DEX MAP TO ACCOMPANY BLACKS GriDE T'i c Q V\ kk&et, ii £FC Sote . 77f/? numbers after the names refer to the page in GuidcBook where die- description is to be found.. Hack Edinburgh. BEQUEST OF REV. CANON SCADDING. D. D. TORONTO. 1901. BLACK'S GUIDE TO DEVONSHIRE. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from University of Toronto http://www.archive.org/details/blacksguidetodevOOedin *&,* BLACK'S GUIDE TO DEVONSHIRE TENTH EDITION miti) fffaps an* Hlustrations ^ . P, EDINBURGH ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK 1879 CLUE INDEX TO THE CHIEF PLACES IN DEVONSHIRE. For General Index see Page 285. Axniinster, 160. Hfracombe, 152. Babbicombe, 109. Kent Hole, 113. Barnstaple, 209. Kingswear, 119. Berry Pomeroy, 269. Lydford, 226. Bideford, 147. Lynmouth, 155. Bridge-water, 277. Lynton, 156. Brixham, 115. Moreton Hampstead, 250. Buckfastleigh, 263. Xewton Abbot, 270. Bude Haven, 223. Okehampton, 203. Budleigh-Salterton, 170. Paignton, 114. Chudleigh, 268. Plymouth, 121. Cock's Tor, 248. Plympton, 143. Dartmoor, 242. Saltash, 142. Dartmouth, 117. Sidmouth, 99. Dart River, 116. Tamar, River, 273. ' Dawlish, 106. Taunton, 277. Devonport, 133. Tavistock, 230. Eddystone Lighthouse, 138. Tavy, 238. Exe, The, 190. Teignmouth, 107. Exeter, 173. Tiverton, 195. Exmoor Forest, 159. Torquay, 111. Exmouth, 101. Totnes, 260. Harewood House, 233. Ugbrooke, 10P. -
DOES the JEWISH PAST HAVE a FUTURE? by Sholome Michael Gelber 251
CONTENTS EDITORS' PREFACE Ν THE HISTORIC QUEST BY JOSEPH L. BLAU VII BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF SALO WITTMAYER BARON XV THE CORRESPONDENCE OF TOBIAS BEN MOSES, THE KARAITE, OF CON- STANTINOPLE BY ZVI ANKORI 1 TOWARD THE DAWN OF HISTORY BY MEIR BEN-HORIN 39 THE MESSIANIC SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS OF ABRAHAM ABULAFIA: A TEN- TATIVE EVALUATION BY ABRAHAM BERGER 55 THE CLOAKMAKERS' STRIKE OF 1910 BY HYMAN BERMAN 63 TRADITION AND INNOVATION BY JOSEPH L. BLAU 95 FELIX LIBERTATE AND THE EMANCIPATION OF DUTCH JEWRY BY HERBERT I. BLOOM 105 AMERICAN JEWRY-REFLECTIONS ON SOCIAL, COMMUNAL, AND SPIRITUAL TRENDS BY SAMUEL M. BLUMENFIELD 123 MORALITY AND RELIGION IN THE THEOLOGY OF MAIMONIDES BY BEN Ζ ION BOKSER 139 AN AMERICAN JEW AT THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE OF 1919: EXCERPTS FROM THE DIARY OF OSCAR S. STRAUS BY NAOMI W. COHEN 159 THE LAFAYETTE COMMITTEE FOR JEWISH EMANCIPATION BY ABRAHAM G. DUKER 169 THE BACKGROUND OF THE BERLIN HASKALAH BY ISAAC EISENSTEIN- BARZILAY 183 ASPECTS OF THE JEWISH COMMUNAL CRISIS IN THE PERIOD OF THE NAZI REGIME IN GERMANY, AUSTRIA, AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA BY PHILIP FRIEDMAN 199 JEWISH IMMIGRANTS IN LONDON IN THE 1880's by Lloyd P. Gartner 231 XIV CONTENTS DOES THE JEWISH PAST HAVE A FUTURE? by Sholome Michael Gelber 251 AN AMERICAN ANTI-SEMITE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY BY LEONARD A. GREENBERG AND HAROLD J. JONAS 265 FLIGHT FROM THE SLUMS BY HYMAN B. GRINSTEIN 285 WELLHAUSEN'S INTERPRETATION OF ISRAEL'S RELIGIOUS HISTORY: A REAPPRAISAL OF HIS RULING IDEAS BY HERBERT F. HAHN 299 THE CONSERVATIVE RABBINATE: A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY BY ARTHUR HERTZBERG 309 THE JEWISH ASSOCIATION IN AMERICA BY ISAAC LEVITATS 333 ON MARRIAGE IN ALALAKH BY ISAAC MENDELSOHN 351 DOCTOR SAMUEL JOHNSON'S GRAMMAR AND HEBREW PSALTER BY ISIDORE S. -
The Times and Influence of Samuel Johnson
UNIVERZITA PALACKÉHO V OLOMOUCI FILOZOFICKÁ FAKULTA Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky Martina Tesařová The Times and Influence of Samuel Johnson Bakalářská práce Studijní obor: Anglická filologie Vedoucí práce: Mgr. Ema Jelínková, Ph.D. OLOMOUC 2013 Prohlášení Prohlašuji, že jsem bakalářskou práci na téma „Doba a vliv Samuela Johnsona“ vypracovala samostatně a uvedla úplný seznam použité a citované literatury. V Olomouci dne 15.srpna 2013 …………………………………….. podpis Poděkování Ráda bych poděkovala Mgr. Emě Jelínkové, Ph.D. za její stále přítomný humor, velkou trpělivost, vstřícnost, cenné rady, zapůjčenou literaturu a ochotu vždy pomoci. Rovněž děkuji svému manželovi, Joe Shermanovi, za podporu a jazykovou korekturu. Johnson, to be sure, has a roughness in his manner, but no man alive has a more tender heart. —James Boswell Table of Contents 1. Introduction ..................................................................................................... 1 2. The Age of Johnson: A Time of Reason and Good Manners ......................... 3 3. Samuel Johnson Himself ................................................................................. 5 3.1. Life and Health ......................................................................................... 5 3.2. Works ..................................................................................................... 10 3.3. Johnson’s Club ....................................................................................... 18 3.4. Opinions and Practice ............................................................................ -
England As the Custodian of the Jewish Past Gary A
England as the Custodian of the Jewish Past Gary A. Rendsburg | Rutgers University Mandelbaum House | University of Sydney | 14 April 2019 I. Norman, Angevin, and Early Plantagenet Periods (1066 – 1290) 1. Ashkenazi Siddur with list of debtors in Judeo-Arabic 2. Valmadonna, no. 1 – Pentateuch, with Targum, and Five Scrolls 3. Sale of land from Jacob the Jew to Walter de Merton 4. Longleat House MS 21 – Hebrew-Latin Dictionary, created at Ramsey Abbey (Cambridgeshire), 13th century II. Lachrymose History 1. Early blood libels: Norwich (1144), Lincoln (1255) 2. Massacre of the Jews of York (1190) 3. Expulsion under Edward I (1290) III. No Jews in England: 1290 – 1657 IV. And yet Hebrew learning continued and flourished: 1. Roger Bacon, polymath (c. 1214 – c. 1292) 2. and many others V. 16th Century 1. Corpus Christi College, est. 1517 – biblioteca trilinguis, praised by Erasmus 2. King Henry VIII – Regius Professorships a. Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge (1540) b. Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford (1546) 3. Antoine Rodolphe Chevallier (1523 – 1572), Regius Professor at Cambridge (1569 – 1572) 4. Thomas Bodley (1545 – 1613), founder of the Bodleian Library, Oxford VI. 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries 1. John Selden (1584 – 1654), jurist and scholar of Jewish law 2. Edward Pococke (1604 – 1691), chair of Arabic, Regius Professor at Oxford 3. Robert Huntington (1637 – 1701), provost of Trinity College, Dublin 4. Benjamin Kennicott (1718 – 1783), keeper of the Radcliffe Library 5. Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773 – 1843) 6. Moses Shapira (1830 – 1884), agent of the British Museum in Jerusalem 7. John Rylands (1801 – 1888), Manchester industrialist 8. -
Review of Adam Sutcliffe, Judaism and Enlightenment
University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Departmental Papers (History) Department of History 2004 Review of Adam Sutcliffe, Judaism and Enlightenment David B. Ruderman University of Pennsylvania, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/history_papers Part of the History of Religion Commons, Intellectual History Commons, and the Jewish Studies Commons Recommended Citation Ruderman, D. B. (2004). Review of Adam Sutcliffe, Judaism and Enlightenment. The Jewish Quarterly Review, 94 (3), 523-530. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2004.0037 This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/history_papers/36 For more information, please contact [email protected]. Review of Adam Sutcliffe, Judaism and Enlightenment Abstract Adam Sutcliffe's book represents an important new synthesis, offering novel and insightful readings of both familiar and less-known thinkers. Since no one before him has attempted to examine so broadly European intellectual life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries from the perspective of attitudes toward Jews and Judaism, Sutcliffe's monograph represents a major contribution to Jewish and Enlightenment studies alike. What is especially remarkable is the range of erudition and mastery of sources on the part of a youthful author of a first book. Based on his doctoral dissertation written at University College London, the work shows immense learning, elegant prose, and a nuanced and sophisticated understanding of the Enlightenment project as well as the place of Judaism in the consciousness of its primary and less primary exponents. Disciplines History | History of Religion | Intellectual History | Jewish Studies This review is available at ScholarlyCommons: https://repository.upenn.edu/history_papers/36 T HE J EWISH Q UARTERLY R EVIEW, Vol. -
Solomon Dubno, His Eastern European Scholarship, and the German Haskalah
Zuzanna Krzemien Solomon Dubno, His Eastern European Scholarship, and the German Haskalah This article examines the life and works of Solomon Dubno (1738–1813), an Eastern European intellectual who lived and worked in Berlin over a period of ten years. While he is remembered as an initiator of the publication Sefer netivot ha-shalom [Paths of Peace], and for his work on the commentary (Bi’ur) of Moses Mendelssohn’s Pentateuch translation,1 Dubno’s influence on the early German Jewish Enlightenment, as a commentator of the book of Genesis, has been largely forgotten. Following a dispute with Mendelssohn, Dubno abandoned the Bi’ur project and headed for Vilna. There, he persuaded several members of the rabbinical elite of the need to create a new Bible commentary under his authorship, which could be published together with the Aramaic translation of Onkelos. He aimed to facilitate a correct understanding of the sacred text among Eastern European Jews, for whom Mendelssohn’s translation was not easily understandable, and which was regarded as a German textbook rather than a tool for enhanced study of the Torah. In this way, Dubno combined the maskilic program of Berlin Jewry with the Eastern European reverence for a traditional religious education. The Life and Works of Solomon Dubno Solomon ben Yoel Dubno was a renowned scholar from Eastern Europe and a preeminent representative of the early Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah), who found recognition among his contemporaries through his poetry and expertise in Hebrew grammar. He was educated under the tutelage of Solomon Chelm (1717–1781),2 whose Sha’arei ne’imah [Gates of Melody], a work on accentuation in 1 Moses Mendelssohn (ed.), Sefer netivot ha-shalom [Paths of Peace] (Berlin: George Friederich Starcke, 1780–1783). -
Chaos Theory and the Text of the Old Testament1 Peter J
Chaos Theory and the Text of the Old Testament1 Peter J. Gentry Peter J. Gentry is Donald L. Williams Professor of Old Testament Interpretation and Director of the Hexapla Institute at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has served on the faculty of Toronto Baptist Seminary and Bible College and also taught at the University of Toronto, Heritage Theological Seminary, and Tyndale Seminary. Dr. Gentry is the author of many articles and book reviews, the co-author of Kingdom through Covenant, 2nd ed. (Crossway, 2018) and God’s Kingdom through God’s Covenants (Crossway, 2015), and the author of How to Read and Understand the Biblical Prophets (Crossway, 2017), and he recently published a critical edition of Ecclesiastes for the Göttingen Septuagint (2019). Introduction Canon and Text are closely related. For those who believe in divine revelation mediated by authorized agents, the central questions are (1) which writings come from these agents authorized to speak for God and (2) have their writings been reliably transmitted to us? Although my inquiry is focused on the latter question, the former is logically prior. How one answers the first question will determine evaluation of evidence relating to the second. What defines a canonical text according to Nahum Sarna, is “a fixed arrangement of content” and “the tendency to produce a standardized text.”2 Since the very first biblical text constituted a covenant, this automatically implies a fixed arrangement of content and a standard text. I am referring to the Covenant at Sinai, a marriage between Yahweh and Israel. A marriage contract does not have a long oral pre-history.