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Page 87
... mind very near to madness " ( 131 , vol . I , p . 264 ) . And further : " I was yesterday hindered by my old disease of mind " ( 131 , vol . I , p . 302 ) . Johnson indicates one specific day . Evidently this refers to an exacerbation ...
... mind very near to madness " ( 131 , vol . I , p . 264 ) . And further : " I was yesterday hindered by my old disease of mind " ( 131 , vol . I , p . 302 ) . Johnson indicates one specific day . Evidently this refers to an exacerbation ...
Page 170
... mind , and to start away from the scene before me to some expected enjoyment , I deliver up myself to the tyranny of every desire which fancy suggests ... " , with , as a result , “ a mind , corrupted with an inveterate disease of ...
... mind , and to start away from the scene before me to some expected enjoyment , I deliver up myself to the tyranny of every desire which fancy suggests ... " , with , as a result , “ a mind , corrupted with an inveterate disease of ...
Page 172
... mind made too feeble to bear the lightest addition to its miseries , proceeds from an unreasonable persuasion of the importance of trifles " . " It is therefore not less necessary to happiness than to virtue , and he rid his mind of ...
... mind made too feeble to bear the lightest addition to its miseries , proceeds from an unreasonable persuasion of the importance of trifles " . " It is therefore not less necessary to happiness than to virtue , and he rid his mind of ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
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