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Page xi
... duty to the editor to assure him that there are persons in the world whose souls respond , in the depths of their inmost nature , to the cry of anguish which makes itself heard in the pages of these remarkable confessions . ' So much ...
... duty to the editor to assure him that there are persons in the world whose souls respond , in the depths of their inmost nature , to the cry of anguish which makes itself heard in the pages of these remarkable confessions . ' So much ...
Page xxvii
... duty . But with all the critical and philosophical power which , as we know from the Journal , he might have lavished on his teaching , had the conditions been other than they were , the study of literature , and the study of philosophy ...
... duty . But with all the critical and philosophical power which , as we know from the Journal , he might have lavished on his teaching , had the conditions been other than they were , the study of literature , and the study of philosophy ...
Page xxix
... duty rebels , his conscience suffers , and he makes resolution after resolution to shake himself free from the mental tradition which had taken such hold upon him — to с write , to produce , to satisfy his friends . INTRODUCTION xxix.
... duty rebels , his conscience suffers , and he makes resolution after resolution to shake himself free from the mental tradition which had taken such hold upon him — to с write , to produce , to satisfy his friends . INTRODUCTION xxix.
Page xxxix
... duty which keeps humanity sweet and living , was unfailing . His horizon was not bounded by his own prison - cell , ' or by that dream - world which he has described with so much subtle beauty ; rather the energies which should have ...
... duty which keeps humanity sweet and living , was unfailing . His horizon was not bounded by his own prison - cell , ' or by that dream - world which he has described with so much subtle beauty ; rather the energies which should have ...
Page xl
... duty . His Calvinistic training lingers long in him ; and what detaches him from the Hegelian school , with which he has much in common , is his own stronger sense of personal need , his preoccupation with the idea of ' sin . ' ' He ...
... duty . His Calvinistic training lingers long in him ; and what detaches him from the Hegelian school , with which he has much in common , is his own stronger sense of personal need , his preoccupation with the idea of ' sin . ' ' He ...
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Page 168 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 289 - ... la prier, La cruelle qu'elle est se bouche les oreilles Et nous laisse crier. Le pauvre en sa cabane, où le chaume le couvre, Est sujet à ses lois; Et la garde qui veille aux barrières du Louvre N'en défend point nos rois. De murmurer contre elle et perdre patience, II est mal à propos; Vouloir ce que Dieu veut est la seule science Qui nous met en repos.
Page 304 - Entre toutes les différentes expressions qui peuvent rendre une seule de nos pensées, il n'y en a qu'une qui soit la bonne. On ne la rencontre pas toujours en parlant ou en écrivant ; il est vrai néanmoins qu'elle existe, que tout ce qui ne l'est point est faible, et ne satisfait point un homme d'esprit qui veut se faire entendre.
Page xli - Christianity is above all religious, and religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its fruits, a communion with God, a calm and deep enthusiasm, a love which radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows.
Page 9 - Reality, the present, the irreparable, the necessary, repel and even terrify me. I have too much imagination, conscience, and penetration, and not enough character. The life of thought alone seems to me to have enough elasticity and immensity, to be free enough from the irreparable ; practical life makes me afraid.
Page 24 - Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda. As far as lies in its power, it tends to transform the universe and humanity into its own image. Thus we have all a cure of souls. Every man is a...
Page 85 - Ceux qui vivent, ce sont ceux qui luttent; ce sont Ceux dont un dessein ferme emplit l'âme et le front, Ceux qui d'un haut destin gravissent l'âpre cime, Ceux qui marchent pensifs, épris d'un but sublime, Ayant devant les yeux sans cesse, nuit et jour, Ou quelque saint labeur ou quelque grand amour.
Page 299 - Where are the great, whom thou would'st wish to praise thee ? Where are the pure, whom thou would'st choose to love thee ? Where are the brave, to stand supreme above thee, Whose high commands would cheer, whose chidings raise thee ? Seek, seeker, in thyself; submit to find In the stones, bread, and life in the blank mind.
Page 301 - In eurem Namen, Mütter, die ihr thront Im Grenzenlosen, ewig einsam wohnt, Und doch gesellig. Euer Haupt umschweben Des Lebens Bilder, regsam, ohne Leben. Was einmal war, in allem Glanz und Schein, Es regt sich dort; denn es will ewig sein.
Page 110 - JJ Rousseau is an ancestor in all things. It was he who founded travelling on foot before Topffer, reverie before Rene, literary botany before George Sand, the worship of nature before Bernardin de S.