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7 September 1709 A.D. Samuel Johnson Born: A literate man with a vast vocabulary, BCP doctrine, BCP worship & BCP piety: famous quotes & prayers Keifer, James E. “Samuel Johnson, Writer.”   Biographical Sketches.   N.d.   http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bio/20.html .   Accessed 20 May 2014.  Next only to William Shakespeare , Samuel Johnson is perhaps the most quoted of English writers. The latter part of the eighteenth century is often (in English-speaking countries, of course) called, simply, the Age of Johnson. Johnson was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, in 1709. His mother did not have enough milk for him, and so he was put out to nurse. From his nurse he contracted a tubercular infection called scrofula, which inflamed the lymph glands and spread to the optic and auditory nerves, leaving him deaf in the left ear, almost blind in the left eye, and dim of vision in the right eye. It also left scar tissue which disfigure...