The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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... essays in the Rambler never reached the height of popularity of Addison's Spectator , nor did his later essays in The Idler and The Adventurer . Only a relatively small circle held him in high esteem as an essayist ; and this is still ...
... essays in the Rambler never reached the height of popularity of Addison's Spectator , nor did his later essays in The Idler and The Adventurer . Only a relatively small circle held him in high esteem as an essayist ; and this is still ...
Page 165
... essays , which we know to have been written in great haste and in a single session , with the printer waiting for the copy , so to speak . For these essays were written in a style which impresses us as well - considered and complex ...
... essays , which we know to have been written in great haste and in a single session , with the printer waiting for the copy , so to speak . For these essays were written in a style which impresses us as well - considered and complex ...
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... essays as against 208 Rambler essays ) . The Adventurer essays make little further contribution to the theory 188 THE MEASURE AND THE CHOICE.
... essays as against 208 Rambler essays ) . The Adventurer essays make little further contribution to the theory 188 THE MEASURE AND THE CHOICE.
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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