The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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... appearances , and a serious experience of the reality of life in accordance with Johnson's common sense , and an eye for the value of the external appearances of justice , lent intrinsic form and contents to his style and personality ...
... appearances , and a serious experience of the reality of life in accordance with Johnson's common sense , and an eye for the value of the external appearances of justice , lent intrinsic form and contents to his style and personality ...
Page 50
... appearance and behaviour of the sub- jects the schizophrenics . Here , too , we have something enig- matic , something awe - inspiring . Here , too , there is in the dis- order something supraindividual that must be there , but is as ...
... appearance and behaviour of the sub- jects the schizophrenics . Here , too , we have something enig- matic , something awe - inspiring . Here , too , there is in the dis- order something supraindividual that must be there , but is as ...
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... appearance . Johnson was not always treated with generosity ; schoolboys are not like that . Merciless re- marks and scorn will certainly have been Johnson's bane during his years at school . A similar situation arises later , during ...
... appearance . Johnson was not always treated with generosity ; schoolboys are not like that . Merciless re- marks and scorn will certainly have been Johnson's bane during his years at school . A similar situation arises later , during ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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