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Title: Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 7
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: New York : Selmar Hess
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto

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ar presented himself to the rulers of that society, they were amazed not more by his ungainly figure and eccentric manners than by the quantity of extensive and curious information which he had picked up during many months of desultory, but not unprofitable study. On the first day of his residence he surprised his teachers by quoting Macrobius ; and one ofthe most learned among them declared, that he had never known a freshman ofequal attainments. Johnson himself tells a story strongly illustrative of the character both of the man and boy. He says, Once, indeed, I was disobedient; I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter-market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago, I desired to atone for this fault; I went to Uttoxeter in very bad weather, and stood for a considerable time bareheaded in the rain, on the spot where my fathers stall used to stand. In contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory.—Boswells Life of Johnson.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON 101 At Oxford Johnson resided during about three years. He was poor, even to raggedness ; and his appearance excited a mirth and a pity which were equallyintolerable to his haughty spirit. He was driven from the quadrangle of Christ Church by the sneering looks which the members of that aristocratical society cast at the holes in his shoes. Some charitable person placed a new pair at his door ; but he spurned them away in a fury. Distress made him, not servile, but reckless and ungovernable. No opulent gentleman commoner panting for oneand-twenty could have treated the academical authorities with more gross disrespect. The needy scholar was generally to be seen under the gate of Pembroke, a gate now adorned with his effigy, haranguing a circle of lads, over whom, inspite of his tattered gown and dirty linen, his wit and audacity gave him an un-disputed ascendancy. In every mutiny against the discipline of the college he was the ringleader. Much

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