The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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... letter which Johnson wrote a year later ( 127 , vol . I , nr . 12 , p . 15-17 ) might suggest an attempt at a reconciliation on his part . One passage in this letter reads : " You have already suffered more than I can bear to reflect ...
... letter which Johnson wrote a year later ( 127 , vol . I , nr . 12 , p . 15-17 ) might suggest an attempt at a reconciliation on his part . One passage in this letter reads : " You have already suffered more than I can bear to reflect ...
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... letters ( 127 ) we read in letter nr . 296 that he wrote to John Taylor : " As to my own health , it has been pretty much interrupted by a cough which has hung on me about ten weeks , and for six a fever has been very violent . I have ...
... letters ( 127 ) we read in letter nr . 296 that he wrote to John Taylor : " As to my own health , it has been pretty much interrupted by a cough which has hung on me about ten weeks , and for six a fever has been very violent . I have ...
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... Letters , Times Lit. Suppl . ( 1965 ) 666 . 122. ID . , Other Letters in the Lennox Collection , Times Lit. Suppl . ( 1965 ) , 685 . 123. JAMESON , S. , The Decline of Merry England , Cassell , London , etc. , 1930 . 124. JASPERS , K ...
... Letters , Times Lit. Suppl . ( 1965 ) 666 . 122. ID . , Other Letters in the Lennox Collection , Times Lit. Suppl . ( 1965 ) , 685 . 123. JAMESON , S. , The Decline of Merry England , Cassell , London , etc. , 1930 . 124. JASPERS , K ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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