Samuel Johnson

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D, Vol. 3 of 9 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D, Vol. 3 of 9 Of the innumerable authors whose performances are thus treasured up in magnificent obscurity, most are. For gotten, because they never deserved to be remembered, and owed the honours which they once obtained, not to judgment or to genius, to labour or to art, but to the pre judice of faction, the stratagem of intrigue, or the servility of adulation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.