Thomas Johnson (died 1737) was an English cleric and academic, a moralist writer.

Life

Johnson was a Fellow of

Magdalene College, Cambridge Magdalene College ( ) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel, in time coming to be known as Buckingham College, before being refounded in 1542 as the College of St Mary ...

(B.A. 1724, M.A. 1728), who was senior university taxor in 1732; and later chaplain at

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. He died in July 1737.

Works

He was one of the four editors of Robert Estienne's ''Latin Thesaurus'', 4 vols. 1734–5; the others were

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, and Sandys Hutchinson. In 1735 he published an edition of Samuel Pufendorf's ''De Officio Hominis et Civis'', London; other editions, 1737, 1748, 1758. His other writings are: * ''An Essay on Moral Obligation: with a view towards settling the Controversy concerning Moral and Positive Duties'' (anon.), Cambridge, 1731, written in answer to pamphlets by

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and another (anonymous author, ''The True Foundation of Natural and Reveal'd Religion'') that was in fact by

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. * ''The Insufficiency of the Law of Nature'', Cambridge, 1731. * ''A Letter to Mr. Chandler, in Vindication of a Passage in the Lord Bishop of London's second Pastoral Letter'', Cambridge, 1734. To Samuel Chandler. * ''Quæstiones Philosophicæ in justi systematis ordinem dispositæ … Ad calcem subjicitur appendix de legibus disputandi'', Cambridge, 1734 (other editions, 1735, 1741).

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;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Johnson, Thomas Year of birth missing 1737 deaths 18th-century English Anglican priests Fellows of Magdalene College, Cambridge