The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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... sense that we are in touch with a great personality . Inevitably one is impressed by the prestige that emanates from him . The prestige of the « honnête homme » in the sense of Diderot , establishes itself without effort . He was wise ...
... sense that we are in touch with a great personality . Inevitably one is impressed by the prestige that emanates from him . The prestige of the « honnête homme » in the sense of Diderot , establishes itself without effort . He was wise ...
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... sense of neurotic symptoms were of only very subordinate importance . Since this involves a nuclear structure of Johnson's personality , I shall discuss this in some detail in the second part of this chapter . After this brief review of ...
... sense of neurotic symptoms were of only very subordinate importance . Since this involves a nuclear structure of Johnson's personality , I shall discuss this in some detail in the second part of this chapter . After this brief review of ...
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... sense principle as Johnson advocated it . " Men are wrong for want of sense ... " , he wrote in Taxation no Tyranny ; and it is common sense that must fill this want . The term com- mon sense is frequently used in daily idiom , but the ...
... sense principle as Johnson advocated it . " Men are wrong for want of sense ... " , he wrote in Taxation no Tyranny ; and it is common sense that must fill this want . The term com- mon sense is frequently used in daily idiom , but the ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
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