The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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Page 49
... favour even though its importance as a work of cultural history was mediocre . Perhaps this is why Ortega y Gasset's Rebellion of the Masses and Huizinga's In the Shadows of to - morrow were eagerly welcomed . How should we conceive ...
... favour even though its importance as a work of cultural history was mediocre . Perhaps this is why Ortega y Gasset's Rebellion of the Masses and Huizinga's In the Shadows of to - morrow were eagerly welcomed . How should we conceive ...
Page 60
... favour as I have a right to expect " ( 203 , p . 101 ) . This aggressiveness has clearly developed on the foundation of a fierce emotional tem- perament , under the influence of circumstances . As a boy , visibly maimed and handicapped ...
... favour as I have a right to expect " ( 203 , p . 101 ) . This aggressiveness has clearly developed on the foundation of a fierce emotional tem- perament , under the influence of circumstances . As a boy , visibly maimed and handicapped ...
Page 188
... favour , and reason by degrees submits to absurdity , as the eye is in time accomodated to darkness . In this disease of the soul , it is of the utmost importance to apply remedies at the begin- ning ; and therefore I shall endeavour to ...
... favour , and reason by degrees submits to absurdity , as the eye is in time accomodated to darkness . In this disease of the soul , it is of the utmost importance to apply remedies at the begin- ning ; and therefore I shall endeavour to ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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