...innumerable occasions, observed him suddenly stop, and then seem to count his steps with a deep eamestness; and when he had neglected or gone wrong in this sort...abstraction, walk briskly on, and join his companion. A strange instance of something of this nature, even when on horseback, happened when he was in the...

...wrong in this sort of magical movement, I have seen him go back again, put himself in a proper position to begin the ceremony, and, having gone through it,...abstraction, walk briskly on, and join his companion. Superstitions There are similarities between superstitious ideas and some obsessions, and between superstitious...

...make the first actual movement when he came close to the door or passage. Thus I conjecture: for I have, upon innumerable occasions, observed him suddenly...abstraction, walk briskly on, and join his companion.' With the help of an opera-glass, looking from a room in Bedford Street, a certain Mr S Whyte was able...

...make the first actual movement when he came close to the door or passage. Thus I conjecture: for I have, upon innumerable occasions, observed him suddenly...abstraction, walk briskly on, and join his companion. Johnson also had symptoms of Tourette's syndrome and depression. Despite these ailments, he wrote the...

...anxious care to go out or in at a door or passage by a certain number of steps from a certain point. ... 1 have, upon innumerable occasions, observed him suddenly...abstraction, walk briskly on, and join his companion. —JAMES BOSWELL, The Life of Johnson It is clear from Boswell's description that the famous English...

...observed him suddenly stop, and then seem to count his steps with a deep earnestness; and when Ii6 had neglected or gone wrong in this sort of magical...abstraction, walk briskly on, and join his companion. A strange instance of something of this nature, even when on horseback, happened when he was in the...