Bi-Centenary of the Birth of Dr. Samuel Johnson
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Excerpt from Bi-Centenary of the Birth of Dr. Samuel Johnson: Commemorative Festival, at Lichfield, September 15th to 19th, 1909 In the bead-roll of Staffordshire Worthies, Dr. Samuel Johnson deservedly occupies the foremost place. Lichfield, his native city, which he loved so well and to which he was so constantly drawn, does itself honour in paying homage to its illustrious citizen. "He was a good man, as he was a great man," said the famous Lord Brougham, "and he had so firm a regard for virtue that he wisely set much greater store by his worth than by his fame." It is because of this that "he being dead yet speaketh." Thomas Carlyle, with his usual vigour and truth, emphasizes the fact: "To estimate the quantity of work that Johnson has performed, how much poorer the world were had it wanted him, can, as in all such cases, never be accurately done; cannot, till after some longer space, be approximately done. All work is a seed sown; it grows and spreads and sows itself anew, and so in endless palingenesia, lives and works. To Johnson´s writings, good and solid and still profitable as they are, we have rated his life and conversation as superior. By the one and by the other, who shall compute what effects have been produced, and are still, and into deep Time, producing?" Who? - who, indeed, will hazard such a computation? Certain it is that Dr. Samuel Johnson still lives, still moves, and has his being amongst us two hundred years after his birth, and a hundred and twenty-five years after his death. This was made abundantly clear at the Celebration of his Bi-Centenary in his native city. Thither all manner of people wended during the memorable week to worship at his shrine, and to pay tribute to his memory. All parts of the British Islands were represented, flags from all the British Dominions beyond the Seas and the American Stars and Stripes, decorated his Birthplace, and greetings came by cablegram from the Johnson Club of Brisbane on the confines of the British Empire in Queensland. The English-speaking race the world over watched with interest the celebration. 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.
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