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6 Sep 2011, 2:12 pm by Buce
 In a different place, I was recalling that "a favorite boss of mine (sic) liked to say--'Samuel Johnson says the way to judge a man is by how he treats a person who can't do him any good.'" I had the wit to add: "I'm not sure Johnson said it, though he might well have thought it. [read post]
17 Apr 2019, 6:55 pm by Leah Litman
The last Johnson domino appears ready to fall, after all. [read post]
27 Oct 2010, 5:12 am by John Phillips
Samuel Johnson, speaking figuratively I’m sure, put it another way: “Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has the right to knock him down for it. [read post]
18 May 2011, 8:44 am by Buce
Following up on my last (18th Century lit) post, I'm reflecting on that stuff about Samuel Johnson's unobtrusive generosity. [read post]
26 Jun 2020, 6:19 am by Schachtman
Smith cited “the lack of certainty of the pathologic diagnosis of ovarian cancer versus a peritoneal mesothelioma in epidemiologic studies” as making the epidemiology uninterpretable and any conclusions impossible.[14] Against this backdrop of evidence, I took a look at what Johnson & Johnson had to say about the occupational asbestos epidemiology in its briefs, in section “B. [read post]
5 Nov 2009, 10:05 pm
There's a line in Samuel Johnson somewhere in which he considers the popular nightmare that one has not lived up to one's potential. [read post]
21 May 2007, 5:41 am
A lot of people who should know better (I'm talking to you, Samuel Johnson, and you, Jane Austen) have a low opinion of Henry Fielding. [read post]
9 Jun 2014, 3:25 am by Roman Hoyos
M’Intosh (1823), when it generates new sovereignal claims and legal rights. [read post]
22 Feb 2009, 2:12 am
Everyone seems to love to quote Samuel Johnson's line "No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money. [read post]
27 Oct 2017, 6:05 pm by Randall Hodgkinson
Phillip Clapp, No. 112,842 (Reno)Probation revocation appeal (petition for review) Caroline M. [read post]
4 May 2018, 4:18 pm
An earlier saying occurs in Virgil's Aeneid: "facilis descensus Averno (the descent to hell is easy)"....Authors who have used the phrase include Charlotte Brontë, Lord Byron, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott,[16] Søren Kierkegaard,[17] and Karl Marx. [read post]
8 Sep 2018, 12:07 pm by Randall Hodgkinson
Grant Wilson, No. 114,567 (Reno)Sentencing appeal (petition for review)Caroline M. [read post]
21 Feb 2012, 1:31 pm by Andrew Ramonas
” He is survived by his second wife, Patricia DeGroot, and their son, Samuel McPherson. [read post]
18 Feb 2010, 7:30 am
i'm bothered by the judge's complete lack of respect for the right of the State to a jury trial. [read post]
17 Jun 2016, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
 From the Historical Society of the DC Circuit: “Judge Patricia M. [read post]