the research entitled “a comparative study of saadi’s golestan and samuel johnson’s rasselas” is based on the inclination of 18th century writer and theorist johnson on towards rich persian literature and outstanding resemblance of golestan and rassales from the structural, moral, philosophical points of view. the findings are based on two hypotheses: (1) has there been any basis for johnson’...

GEORGE ELIOT wrote that "about the year 1829 the dark territories of pathology were a fine America for a spirited young adventurer." The adventurer was Lydgate, who had preferred Rasselas or Gulliver to the Bible or Bayle's dictionary until he discovered the medical profession, "the finest in the world, presenting the most perfect interchange between science and art, offering the most direct al...