The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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Page 53
... died under mysterious circumstances ( 57 , p . 164 ) . Like his uncles , this brother was a social failure who may have been ( and probably had been ) in conflict with the * Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York City . judiciary for ...
... died under mysterious circumstances ( 57 , p . 164 ) . Like his uncles , this brother was a social failure who may have been ( and probably had been ) in conflict with the * Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York City . judiciary for ...
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... died three years before , in 1731 ) . Evidently this was done partly to avoid the ridicule of the Lichfield population , who would not leave the wedding of the ugly , ungainly 25 - year - old Samuel Johnson to the 45 - year - old well ...
... died three years before , in 1731 ) . Evidently this was done partly to avoid the ridicule of the Lichfield population , who would not leave the wedding of the ugly , ungainly 25 - year - old Samuel Johnson to the 45 - year - old well ...
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... dying was clearly stated by Watkins in his valuable book Perilous Banlance : " His amazing vitality was intensified by this terror of dying . Only an iron self - discipline could have resisted those long months ( he was confined to his ...
... dying was clearly stated by Watkins in his valuable book Perilous Banlance : " His amazing vitality was intensified by this terror of dying . Only an iron self - discipline could have resisted those long months ( he was confined to his ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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