The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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... Pembroke College . Feared , but also admired as a quick and intelligent debater , as a scoffer and as a rebel with a radical attitude ( Bronson has rightly pointed this out ( 42 ) ) who disregarded authority and institutions , he must ...
... Pembroke College . Feared , but also admired as a quick and intelligent debater , as a scoffer and as a rebel with a radical attitude ( Bronson has rightly pointed this out ( 42 ) ) who disregarded authority and institutions , he must ...
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... Pembroke College had said about him , Johnson protested : " Ah , Sir , I was rude and violent . It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic . I was miserably poor , and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ; so I ...
... Pembroke College had said about him , Johnson protested : " Ah , Sir , I was rude and violent . It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic . I was miserably poor , and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ; so I ...
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... Pembroke college his library , which was quite considerable for those days ( 57 , p . 120 ) , entrusting it to a friend ; we know that the books were not sent to Lichfield until much later . This suggests both haste in leaving Pembroke ...
... Pembroke college his library , which was quite considerable for those days ( 57 , p . 120 ) , entrusting it to a friend ; we know that the books were not sent to Lichfield until much later . This suggests both haste in leaving Pembroke ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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