The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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Page 13
... never dependent upon an abstract ideal , paraded as a presupposed problem . On the contrary , what mattered to Johnson was the empirical knowledge of man ; his touchstone was always man's behaviour , he judged man by his actions and his ...
... never dependent upon an abstract ideal , paraded as a presupposed problem . On the contrary , what mattered to Johnson was the empirical knowledge of man ; his touchstone was always man's behaviour , he judged man by his actions and his ...
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... never gave himself up completely to his writings . Raleigh therefore contradicts him- self . Here we encounter another enigma of Johnson's persona- lity : why did he never reveal himself completely as a writer ? Precisely as a man he ...
... never gave himself up completely to his writings . Raleigh therefore contradicts him- self . Here we encounter another enigma of Johnson's persona- lity : why did he never reveal himself completely as a writer ? Precisely as a man he ...
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... never recovered completely during the intervals . From a diagnostic point of view it is of paramount importance to know that the mental disturbances were never entirely absent . In endogenous depression , there is complete recovery once ...
... never recovered completely during the intervals . From a diagnostic point of view it is of paramount importance to know that the mental disturbances were never entirely absent . In endogenous depression , there is complete recovery once ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
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