johnsonism

Updated: May 24, 2025

If he enjoyed Highland dinners and toasts, as henchman to a new sort of chieftain, Henry Erskine, in the domestic "Outer-House," could hand him a shilling "for the sight of his Bear." Doubtless the man was laughed at, and often heard himself laughed at for his Johnsonism.

- The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III