The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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Page 18
... Boswell had eyes only for Johnson as a public figure , and consequently his biography is too one - sided . Boswell has approached this side of Johnson in such a grand manner and displayed it so convincingly that we must beware of his ...
... Boswell had eyes only for Johnson as a public figure , and consequently his biography is too one - sided . Boswell has approached this side of Johnson in such a grand manner and displayed it so convincingly that we must beware of his ...
Page 59
... Boswell in Davies ' bookshop and later with Boswell when the latter for want of subject matter started to ask the most foolish questions ( why an apple is round while a pear tapers ; what Johnson would do if he were incarcerated with a ...
... Boswell in Davies ' bookshop and later with Boswell when the latter for want of subject matter started to ask the most foolish questions ( why an apple is round while a pear tapers ; what Johnson would do if he were incarcerated with a ...
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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