Category: William Dodd

Convict’s Address to His Unhappy Brethren James Boswell June 27 Samuel Johnson September 19 When a man knows he is to be hanged William Dodd

Hanging … It concentrates the mind wonderfully.

5 years ago
Robert Deis

Many of the famed witticisms uttered by British writer, lexicographer and wit Samuel Johnson were recorded for posterity in a journal kept by his admirer and friend James Boswell. Boswell…