The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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... things , his strict common sense and his rejection of anything that smacked of hypocrisy , insincerity , affectation ; in brief , of all " cant " . Johnson was averse to all false symbolism , and held the allegorical in frank contempt ...
... things , his strict common sense and his rejection of anything that smacked of hypocrisy , insincerity , affectation ; in brief , of all " cant " . Johnson was averse to all false symbolism , and held the allegorical in frank contempt ...
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... things . These things determine the " encounter " with Johnson . If I may quote from Rimbaud ( 435 ) : " The encounter with a de- ceased person is a special encounter ; it has an overt and a covert side , or rather a static ...
... things . These things determine the " encounter " with Johnson . If I may quote from Rimbaud ( 435 ) : " The encounter with a de- ceased person is a special encounter ; it has an overt and a covert side , or rather a static ...
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... things and whose needs are few . Such men are vagrants , seamen , pioneers who dare gamble on a single card . They are mystics , fanatic sectarians , aesthetically and emotionally sen- sitive persons who are open to the perception of ...
... things and whose needs are few . Such men are vagrants , seamen , pioneers who dare gamble on a single card . They are mystics , fanatic sectarians , aesthetically and emotionally sen- sitive persons who are open to the perception of ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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