The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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Page 71
... conversation and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most love : I dogmatise and am contradicted , and in this conflict of opinions and sentiments I find delight " ( 106 , p . 87 ) . This confession is consistent with some ...
... conversation and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most love : I dogmatise and am contradicted , and in this conflict of opinions and sentiments I find delight " ( 106 , p . 87 ) . This confession is consistent with some ...
Page 96
... conversation " , wrote Rey- nolds ( 203 , p . 70 ) . And a little further on ( 203 , p . 71 ) he stated : " Sometimes , indeed , it would be near a minute before he would give an answer , looking as if he laboured to bring his mind to ...
... conversation " , wrote Rey- nolds ( 203 , p . 70 ) . And a little further on ( 203 , p . 71 ) he stated : " Sometimes , indeed , it would be near a minute before he would give an answer , looking as if he laboured to bring his mind to ...
Page 97
... conversation . Miss Reynolds ( unmarried sister of the painter ) , is another person who left us several personal observations on Johnson ( 110 , vol . II , p . 273 , 275 , 297 ) , which are in a similar vein to the above . Hawkins ...
... conversation . Miss Reynolds ( unmarried sister of the painter ) , is another person who left us several personal observations on Johnson ( 110 , vol . II , p . 273 , 275 , 297 ) , which are in a similar vein to the above . Hawkins ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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