The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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Page 83
... thoughts with a very useless earnestness upon past incidents . I have yet got no command over my thoughts ; an unpleasing incident is almost certain to hinder my rest ... Life so spent is useless " ( 131 , vol . I , p . 146-147 ) ...
... thoughts with a very useless earnestness upon past incidents . I have yet got no command over my thoughts ; an unpleasing incident is almost certain to hinder my rest ... Life so spent is useless " ( 131 , vol . I , p . 146-147 ) ...
Page 187
... thoughts . In this stream of associations of thoughts and imaginations we can then detect gaps or striking diversions that indicate an acute interference by another associative chain of thoughts , which influences the original ...
... thoughts . In this stream of associations of thoughts and imaginations we can then detect gaps or striking diversions that indicate an acute interference by another associative chain of thoughts , which influences the original ...
Page 188
... thoughts , to remark how he was led thither , and why he continues the reflection " ( italics by E.V. ) . " He therefore that would govern his actions by the laws of virtue , must regulate his thoughts by those of reason ; he must keep ...
... thoughts , to remark how he was led thither , and why he continues the reflection " ( italics by E.V. ) . " He therefore that would govern his actions by the laws of virtue , must regulate his thoughts by those of reason ; he must keep ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
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