The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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... less strength " ( 196 ) : " This is the greatness of Johnson , that he is greater than his works . He thought of himself as a man , not as an author ; and of literature as a means , not as an end in itself ” ( 196 , p . 31 ) . Johnson ...
... less strength " ( 196 ) : " This is the greatness of Johnson , that he is greater than his works . He thought of himself as a man , not as an author ; and of literature as a means , not as an end in itself ” ( 196 , p . 31 ) . Johnson ...
Page 82
... less than commonly oppressed with the sense of sin , and less affected with the shame of Idleness . Yet I will not despair ( 131 , vol . I , p . 77-81 ) . This is evidently a different type of depression as compared with the three prece ...
... less than commonly oppressed with the sense of sin , and less affected with the shame of Idleness . Yet I will not despair ( 131 , vol . I , p . 77-81 ) . This is evidently a different type of depression as compared with the three prece ...
Page 177
... less rationally wicked , pass their lives in mischief , because they cannot bear the sight of success , and mark out every man for hatred , whose fame or fortune they believe increasing " . The unconscious elements , which Sullivan ...
... less rationally wicked , pass their lives in mischief , because they cannot bear the sight of success , and mark out every man for hatred , whose fame or fortune they believe increasing " . The unconscious elements , which Sullivan ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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