The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. 1787

by John Hawkins

Excerpt from The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D

Ration with honour and applaufe. It may here be proper, as it will account for fome particulars refpeet ing the charafter of his fon Samuel, to mention, that his political principles led him to favour the pretenfi ons of the exiled family, and that though a very hoheit and fenfible man, he, like many Others inhabiting the county of Stafford, was a Jacobite.

605 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1975

About the author

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Sir John Hawkins was an English author and friend of Dr Samuel Johnson and Horace Walpole.
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Reviews

[Stefany Reich-Silber · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting biography written by one of his peers and friends. Not as well known a biography as Boswell's and claims by Boswell as to Hawkins having stolen Dr. Johnson's watch at death possibly leading to a less favorable view of this author, it is, nonetheless, a very readable account of this most unusual person and details his interesting, convivial and sometime tortured life in London and its surrounds during the 1700s.