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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
And then, Sir,...
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And then, Sir, there is this consideration, that if the abuse be enormous, Nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 6 July 1763 (1791).
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English lexicographer, critic; He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.