The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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... admiration that they found it an honour to carry him on their shoulders - an honour not easily bestowed upon a ... admired as a quick and intelligent debater , as a scoffer and as a rebel with a radical attitude ( Bronson has rightly ...
... admiration that they found it an honour to carry him on their shoulders - an honour not easily bestowed upon a ... admired as a quick and intelligent debater , as a scoffer and as a rebel with a radical attitude ( Bronson has rightly ...
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... admirable talents of conversation * , for his admirable talents , for his friendship , his love for all that was just and true and for his gusto for life , it is quite understandable that , talking in his inimitable way among friendly ...
... admirable talents of conversation * , for his admirable talents , for his friendship , his love for all that was just and true and for his gusto for life , it is quite understandable that , talking in his inimitable way among friendly ...
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... admiration . My mother , whose face had luckily advanced her to a condition above her birth , thought no evil so great as deformity . She had not the power of imagining any other defect than a cloudy complexion or disproportionate ...
... admiration . My mother , whose face had luckily advanced her to a condition above her birth , thought no evil so great as deformity . She had not the power of imagining any other defect than a cloudy complexion or disproportionate ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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