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The good man speaking well. (Samuel Johnson)
From: National Review
Date: 19850111
Author:Aeschliman, M.D.
THE GOOD MAN SPEAKING WELL
TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO, on December 13, 1784, Samuel Johnson died in London, loved and venerated by those who knew him best and immortalized a few years later in James Boswell's classical biography. Johnson's greatness of spirit, mind, character, conduct, and art, his "great-souledness' or magnanimity, his piety and eloquence, are so overwhelmingly obvious and affecting to those who know his writings that it is often only with impatience that they can write about him (as opposed to quoting from him). When asked recently by Elton Trueblood who was "the ...
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