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The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters or Dr Johnson's Guide to Life

Henry Hitchings

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Description:Dr Johnson was a dazzling conversationalist, a polymath and a moralist, whose intellectual and social curiosity were boundless. Yet he was also a deeply melancholy man, haunted by dark thoughts, sickness and a diseased imagination. In his own life, both public and private, he sought to choose a virtuous and prudent path, negotiating everyday hazards and temptations. His writings and aphorisms illuminate what it means to lead a life of integrity, and his experience, abundantly documented by him and by others (such as James Boswell and Hester Thrale), is a lesson in the art of regulating the mind and the body. Johnson's story touches on many themes that have enduring significance. He was, and remains, a perceptive commentator on the vanity of human wishes, the rewards and dangers of charity, the need to cultivate kindness, the complexities of family life (especially marriage), the effects of boredom and the fleeting nature of pleasure. He writes and speaks incisively and humanely about the ego, ambition, hypocrisy, fallibility and disorders of the mind, as well as the corrosive effects of obsession, the precariousness of fame and the skulduggery of the literary world. He is a source of profound good sense about what it means to be a lawyer, a teacher and a doctor. More than that, though, he continually translates his experience of poverty, scorn, pain and madness into a rich understanding of how to be.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters or Dr Johnson's Guide to Life. To get started finding The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters or Dr Johnson's Guide to Life, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 320

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Pan MacMillan

Release: 2018

ISBN: 150984192X

Description: Dr Johnson was a dazzling conversationalist, a polymath and a moralist, whose intellectual and social curiosity were boundless. Yet he was also a deeply melancholy man, haunted by dark thoughts, sickness and a diseased imagination. In his own life, both public and private, he sought to choose a virtuous and prudent path, negotiating everyday hazards and temptations. His writings and aphorisms illuminate what it means to lead a life of integrity, and his experience, abundantly documented by him and by others (such as James Boswell and Hester Thrale), is a lesson in the art of regulating the mind and the body. Johnson's story touches on many themes that have enduring significance. He was, and remains, a perceptive commentator on the vanity of human wishes, the rewards and dangers of charity, the need to cultivate kindness, the complexities of family life (especially marriage), the effects of boredom and the fleeting nature of pleasure. He writes and speaks incisively and humanely about the ego, ambition, hypocrisy, fallibility and disorders of the mind, as well as the corrosive effects of obsession, the precariousness of fame and the skulduggery of the literary world. He is a source of profound good sense about what it means to be a lawyer, a teacher and a doctor. More than that, though, he continually translates his experience of poverty, scorn, pain and madness into a rich understanding of how to be.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters or Dr Johnson's Guide to Life. To get started finding The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters or Dr Johnson's Guide to Life, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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