The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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... gave his money away when he could because money meant little to him as material property ; it perhaps had meaning only in the sense concisely formulated by Jacques Bloem : " Money is time » . His house was an abode for several of the ...
... gave his money away when he could because money meant little to him as material property ; it perhaps had meaning only in the sense concisely formulated by Jacques Bloem : " Money is time » . His house was an abode for several of the ...
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... gave the most exact definition and assessment of the degeneration concept is almost completely forgotten . Cox's definition : " Degeneration is loss of correlative properties * as a result of copulation " fully deserves our attention ...
... gave the most exact definition and assessment of the degeneration concept is almost completely forgotten . Cox's definition : " Degeneration is loss of correlative properties * as a result of copulation " fully deserves our attention ...
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... gave him . As Krutch put it , " Samuel Johnson was a pessimist with an enormous zest for living " ( 138 , p . 1 ) . At heart , he remained a Bohemian all his life , with a craving for " oblivion of care " and " freedom from solicitude ...
... gave him . As Krutch put it , " Samuel Johnson was a pessimist with an enormous zest for living " ( 138 , p . 1 ) . At heart , he remained a Bohemian all his life , with a craving for " oblivion of care " and " freedom from solicitude ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
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