The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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... continued till my fourteenth year ; and still I find a great reluctance to go to church . I then became a sort of lax talker against religion , for I did not much think against it ; and this lasted 80 THE MEASURE AND THE CHOICE.
... continued till my fourteenth year ; and still I find a great reluctance to go to church . I then became a sort of lax talker against religion , for I did not much think against it ; and this lasted 80 THE MEASURE AND THE CHOICE.
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... continued for many months ( a very usual thing in these epileptic depressions at a time when no adequate means to control them were as yet available ) . Johnson invariably sought his remedy in continued activity and in seeking the ...
... continued for many months ( a very usual thing in these epileptic depressions at a time when no adequate means to control them were as yet available ) . Johnson invariably sought his remedy in continued activity and in seeking the ...
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... continued accumulation of single propositions " ( another repetition , E.V. ) . Rambler nr . 173 also contains several repetitions . First we read : " Pedantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning ” ; and , a little later : " He ...
... continued accumulation of single propositions " ( another repetition , E.V. ) . Rambler nr . 173 also contains several repetitions . First we read : " Pedantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning ” ; and , a little later : " He ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
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