The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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Page 58
... once again to point out that the degenerative disposition is both dynamic and static . It is static through its unchangeable element and dynamic because it is so variable . The phenomena one observes in a degenerative personality are ...
... once again to point out that the degenerative disposition is both dynamic and static . It is static through its unchangeable element and dynamic because it is so variable . The phenomena one observes in a degenerative personality are ...
Page 125
... once observed to me : ' Tom Tyers described me the best ' : " Sir ( said he ) , you are like a ghost : you never speak till you are spoken to " " . This is indeed rather striking . When in company , sympathetic people often wait to see ...
... once observed to me : ' Tom Tyers described me the best ' : " Sir ( said he ) , you are like a ghost : you never speak till you are spoken to " " . This is indeed rather striking . When in company , sympathetic people often wait to see ...
Page 127
... once tried to rise early , he wrote about this effort to Bennet Langton : " I have risen every morning since New Year day at about eight , when I was up , I have indeed done but little , yet is no slight advancement to obtain for so ...
... once tried to rise early , he wrote about this effort to Bennet Langton : " I have risen every morning since New Year day at about eight , when I was up , I have indeed done but little , yet is no slight advancement to obtain for so ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
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