The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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... excellence ( his courage was proverbial ) as well as wise and enormously talented was not a " man all of one piece " ? These are never great men , they are too uncom- plicated , too one - sided , too linear ; in brief , they are not ...
... excellence ( his courage was proverbial ) as well as wise and enormously talented was not a " man all of one piece " ? These are never great men , they are too uncom- plicated , too one - sided , too linear ; in brief , they are not ...
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... excellence . Some mental territories are very highly developed , while others are relatively retarded . Their behaviour is characterized by bizarre eccentric pecularities . Edith Sitwell once wrote a very entertaining book on The ...
... excellence . Some mental territories are very highly developed , while others are relatively retarded . Their behaviour is characterized by bizarre eccentric pecularities . Edith Sitwell once wrote a very entertaining book on The ...
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... excellence in the individual of more than average endowment in this respect the individual I call the sympathetic type , or perhaps more exact the hypersympathetic type . In my opinion , Samuel Johnson was such a hypersympathetic ...
... excellence in the individual of more than average endowment in this respect the individual I call the sympathetic type , or perhaps more exact the hypersympathetic type . In my opinion , Samuel Johnson was such a hypersympathetic ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
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