 ... were deeply visible. He also wore his hair, which was straight and stiff", and separated behind ; and he often had, seemingly, convulsive starts and odd gesticulations, which tended to excite at once surprise and ridicule.  The North American Miscellany - Стр. 11851Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | James F. Leckman, Donald J. Cohen - 1998 - Страниц: 606
...bewildering assemblage of abrupt movements and sounds. James Boswell characterized Samuel Johnson's tics as "convulsive starts and odd gesticulations, which tended to excite at once surprise and ridicule" (quoted in Murray, 1982). The same is true today. Working in close collaboration with patients and... | |
 | William F. Bynum, Roy Porter, Michael Shepherd - 2003 - Страниц: 352
...convulsionary' was his obituarist Thomas Tyers' verdict).34 'He often had', wrote his step-daughter Lucy Porter, 'convulsive starts and odd gesticulations, which tended to excite at once surprise and ridicule'35 - muttering under his breath, rubbing bits of orange peel together, making clucking noises,... | |
 | Bruce Franklin Pennington - 2005 - Страниц: 404
...much more costeffective than incarceration. TOURETTE SYNDROME AND OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER ... he often had, seemingly, convulsive starts and odd...which tended to excite at once surprise and ridicule. He had another particularity. . . . This was his anxious care to go out or in at a door or passage... | |
 | John T. Walkup, Jonathan W. Mink, Peter James Hollenbeck - 2006 - Страниц: 296
...repetitive movements and sounds. In 1791, James Boswell (4) characterized Samuel Johnson's tics as "convulsive starts and odd gesticulations, which tended to excite at once surprise and ridicule." His description remains apt today. During the past several decades, clinical investigators have focused... | |
 | 1904 - Страниц: 314
...was hideously striking to the eye, and the scars of scrofula deeply visible. He also wore his hair, which was straight and stiff and separated behind,...which tended to excite at once surprise and ridicule." Such is the portrait given of him by his step-daughter ; but Mrs. Porter was so much engaged by his... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - Страниц: 544
..." Your obliged humble servant, Jan. 9th, 1794. " E. HECTOR. deeply visible. He also wore his hair, which was straight and stiff, and separated behind...odd gesticulations, which tended to excite at once surprize and ridicule. Mrs. Porter was so much engaged by his conversation that she overlooked all... | |
 | 1904 - Страниц: 516
...visible. He also wore his hair, which was straight and stiff, and separated behind, and he often bad, seemingly, convulsive starts and odd gesticulations,...surprise and ridicule. Mrs. Porter was so much engaged by bis conversation that she overlooked all these external disadvantages and said to her daughter : '... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1826 - Страниц: 604
...lean and lank, with an immense structure of bones hideously striking to the eye, and that he had often convulsive starts and odd gesticulations, which tended to excite at once surprise and ridicule. In after-life he became more rotund in shape, but not a whit less eccentric in manner. Lord Chesterfield... | |
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