The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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Page 56
... closely related to it . He " loved to read poetry but hardly ever read any poem to an end " ( 110 , I , p . 363 ; 138 , p . 12 ) . He found it difficult to concentrate for any lenght of time , and rarely finished a book . He read " with ...
... closely related to it . He " loved to read poetry but hardly ever read any poem to an end " ( 110 , I , p . 363 ; 138 , p . 12 ) . He found it difficult to concentrate for any lenght of time , and rarely finished a book . He read " with ...
Page 58
... closely related to his lack of selfcontrol and his aggressiveness . Here again , a degenerative dis- position and epileptic features overlap . Perhaps I am too emphatic , but because degeneration is so often understood as static it can ...
... closely related to his lack of selfcontrol and his aggressiveness . Here again , a degenerative dis- position and epileptic features overlap . Perhaps I am too emphatic , but because degeneration is so often understood as static it can ...
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... closely related because they have a common physio- logical basis and the anatomical structures involved localized close together in the basal region of the brain . All portraits of Johnson at middle age or later depict him with the head ...
... closely related because they have a common physio- logical basis and the anatomical structures involved localized close together in the basal region of the brain . All portraits of Johnson at middle age or later depict him with the head ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
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