The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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Page 10
... Boswell merely thought it did not suit so serious a man , who was the most widely known moralist of England . The passage quoted ends in one of the delightful scenes in Boswell's Life : " Johnson could not stop his merriment , but ...
... Boswell merely thought it did not suit so serious a man , who was the most widely known moralist of England . The passage quoted ends in one of the delightful scenes in Boswell's Life : " Johnson could not stop his merriment , but ...
Page 68
... Boswell with almost clinical accuracy , cannot be understood from these facts alone . We must certainly speak of a compulsive ceremony . Of importance also is Boswell's remark that this habit was establis- hed at an early age . This ...
... Boswell with almost clinical accuracy , cannot be understood from these facts alone . We must certainly speak of a compulsive ceremony . Of importance also is Boswell's remark that this habit was establis- hed at an early age . This ...
Page 206
... BOSWELL , J. , Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 , The Yale Ed . of the private papers of James Boswell , Heinemann , London 1950 . 22. ID . , Boswell in Holland , 1763-1764 , The Yale Ed . of the private papers of James Boswell ...
... BOSWELL , J. , Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 , The Yale Ed . of the private papers of James Boswell , Heinemann , London 1950 . 22. ID . , Boswell in Holland , 1763-1764 , The Yale Ed . of the private papers of James Boswell ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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