Note 253 — Chapter V · LITERARY ESTIMATE
Reading edition
Dr. Johnson (Rambler, No. 122) commends Knolles’s History of the Turks, but declares the subject foreign and uninteresting, a remote and barbarous nation “of which none desire to be informed.”
Reading edition
Dr. Johnson (Rambler, No. 122) commends Knolles’s History of the Turks, but declares the subject foreign and uninteresting, a remote and barbarous nation “of which none desire to be informed.”