The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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Page 114
... powers are too feeble and its superim- posed directive position is therefore uncertain , and on the other hand under ... power between autonomic pathological defence and on the other hand a weak- ened undermined integrative principle ...
... powers are too feeble and its superim- posed directive position is therefore uncertain , and on the other hand under ... power between autonomic pathological defence and on the other hand a weak- ened undermined integrative principle ...
Page 145
... powers and reflec- tions : " It is ridiculous to oppose judgement to imagination ; for it does not appear that men have necessarily less of one as they have more of the other " . He has frequently described his imaginative powers in ...
... powers and reflec- tions : " It is ridiculous to oppose judgement to imagination ; for it does not appear that men have necessarily less of one as they have more of the other " . He has frequently described his imaginative powers in ...
Page 164
... powers ( " Reason " ) in this inner struggle of conflict . Again and again he mentions the important influence of ... power from whom an escape must be so dearly bought , and whose tyranny was little felt , except when it was resisted ...
... powers ( " Reason " ) in this inner struggle of conflict . Again and again he mentions the important influence of ... power from whom an escape must be so dearly bought , and whose tyranny was little felt , except when it was resisted ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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