Words being arbitrary must owe their power to asso · Samuel Johnson

About the beginning of the seventeenth century app

Words being arbitrary must owe their power to association, and have the influence, and that only, which custom has given them. Language is the dress of thought.

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Samuel Johnson

1709-09-18 — 1784-12-13 · Lichfield

Samuel Johnson was a prominent 18th-century English writer, lexicographer, essayist, poet, and literary critic. He is widely regarded as one of the most important literary figures in British history, famous for his 'A Dictionary of the English Language'.