...avoided the cracks of the paving stones, taking, as Boswell said: . . .anxious care to go in or out at a door or passage, by a certain number of steps...point, or at least so as that either his right or left foot (I am not sure which), should constantly make the first actual movement. (Boswell 1969, p.342)...

...certain number of steps from a certain point, or at least so that either his right or his left foot . . . should constantly make the first actual movement when he came close to the door or passage." Johnson was intensely troubled by his obsessions and compulsions, believing they were a sign of impending...

...Johnson had a "peculiarity, of which none of his friends even ventured to ask an explanation. . . . This was his anxious care to go out or in at a door...constantly make the first actual movement when he came close."1 Others noted that Johnson invariably touched every post as he walked along the street, retracing...

...which he had contracted early, and from which he had never called upon his reason to disentangle him. This was his anxious care to go out or in at a door...point, or at least so as that either his right or left foot (I am not certain which), should constantly make the first actual movement when he came close...

...another particularity ... it appeared to me some superstitious habit, which had contracted early . . . this was his anxious care to go out or in at a door...number of steps from a certain point, or at least so that either his right or his left foot (I am not certain which) should constantly make the first actual...

...(1709-1784) "to go out or in at a door ... by a certain number of steps from a certain point ... so that either his right or his left foot (I am not certain...first actual movement when he came close to the door." When Johnson had miscounted, "I have seen him go back again, put himself in a proper posture to begin...

...gesticulations, 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...by a certain number of steps from a certain point. ... 1 have, upon innumerable occasions, observed him suddenly stop, and then seem to count his steps...

...walked down Fleet Street. Another "superstitious habit" as described by his biographer, James Boswell, was: his anxious care to go out or in at a door or...movement when he came close to the door or passage . . . for I have, upon innumerable occasions, observed him suddenly stop, and then seem to count his...

...which he had contracted early, and from which he had never called upon his reason to disentangle him. This was his anxious care to go out or in at a door or passage, 1 Prayers and Meditations, p. 50. 2 Ibid. p. 51. by a certain number of steps from a certain point,...

...which he had contracted early, and from which he had never called upon his reason to disentangle him. This was his anxious care to go out or in at a door...of steps from a certain point, or at . least so as tliat either his right or left foot, (I am not certain which,) should constantly make the first actual...