Zitate von Samuel Johnson

It [the Pyramids] seems to have been erected only in compliance with that hunger of imagination which preys incessantly upon life, and must be always appeased by some employment . . . I consider this mighty structure as a monument of the insufficiency of human enjoyments.

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Gelehrter, Lexikograf, Schriftsteller, "The vanity of human wishes", "London", "Die Debatten des Senats zu Liliput", "History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia" (England, 1709 - 1784).


Samuel Johnson · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Samuel Johnson wäre heute 314 Jahre, 7 Monate, 27 Tage oder 114.926 Tage alt.

Geboren am 18.09.1709 in Lichfield
Gestorben am 13.12.1784 in London
Sternzeichen: ♍ Jungfrau


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