Samuel Johnson: The Major Works
by ed. by Donald Green
Jonas Hanway wrote an essay on tea, he had the audacity – in Dr Johnson’s eyes – to claim that tea was not only pernicious to the health, it was obstructive to industry and it was impoverishing the nation.
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