Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intimé of Henri Frédéric Amiel, Tr., with an Introducion and Notes |
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Page xii
... present the biographical material available is extremely scanty , and if it were not for the kindness of M. Scherer ... present book through the press . My knowledge of them , however , came too late to enable me to make use of them for ...
... present the biographical material available is extremely scanty , and if it were not for the kindness of M. Scherer ... present book through the press . My knowledge of them , however , came too late to enable me to make use of them for ...
Page 53
... present and past reality . The book is at once the plea justificatory of prog- ress , conceived as fatal and irresistible , and an enthusiastic hymn to the triumph of humanity . It is earnest , but morally superficial ; poetical , but ...
... present and past reality . The book is at once the plea justificatory of prog- ress , conceived as fatal and irresistible , and an enthusiastic hymn to the triumph of humanity . It is earnest , but morally superficial ; poetical , but ...
Page 98
... present - a reserve which I have often noticed in myself with vexation . My heart never dares to speak seriously , either because it is ashamed of being thought to flatter , or afraid lest it should not find exactly the right expression ...
... present - a reserve which I have often noticed in myself with vexation . My heart never dares to speak seriously , either because it is ashamed of being thought to flatter , or afraid lest it should not find exactly the right expression ...
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