The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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Page 159
... gives free rein to his wishes and desires in which he can yield to his craving for power and find compensation for his ... give without any intentional expectation of receiving . Apparent indifference in an attempt to ward off one's own ...
... gives free rein to his wishes and desires in which he can yield to his craving for power and find compensation for his ... give without any intentional expectation of receiving . Apparent indifference in an attempt to ward off one's own ...
Page 170
... give the future full power over my mind , and to start away from the scene before me to some expected enjoyment , I deliver up myself to the tyranny of every desire which fancy suggests ... " , with , as a result , “ a mind , corrupted ...
... give the future full power over my mind , and to start away from the scene before me to some expected enjoyment , I deliver up myself to the tyranny of every desire which fancy suggests ... " , with , as a result , “ a mind , corrupted ...
Page 199
... give drive to his style . It is an original and personal way of writing , which on the one hand seeks direct confrontation with reality in a concrete empirical approach to the subject , but on the other hand is a " constant and ...
... give drive to his style . It is an original and personal way of writing , which on the one hand seeks direct confrontation with reality in a concrete empirical approach to the subject , but on the other hand is a " constant and ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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