Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Volume 2Macmillan, 1905 - 721 pages |
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Page 51
... French critics and the last representative of the epoch of literary taste , the future belong- ing to the bookmakers and the chatterers , to mediocrity and to violence . The article breathes a certain manly melancholy , be- fitting a ...
... French critics and the last representative of the epoch of literary taste , the future belong- ing to the bookmakers and the chatterers , to mediocrity and to violence . The article breathes a certain manly melancholy , be- fitting a ...
Page 74
... French are ignorant of the A B C of individual liberty , and still show an essentially catholic intolerance towards the ideas which have not attained univer- sality or the adhesion of the majority . The nation is an army which can bring ...
... French are ignorant of the A B C of individual liberty , and still show an essentially catholic intolerance towards the ideas which have not attained univer- sality or the adhesion of the majority . The nation is an army which can bring ...
Page 80
... . lawful to doubt . reality a fruit , the But the past makes it While the Republic is in French look upon it as a seed - sowing . Elsewhere such a form of government presupposes free men ; in France it is 80 AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
... . lawful to doubt . reality a fruit , the But the past makes it While the Republic is in French look upon it as a seed - sowing . Elsewhere such a form of government presupposes free men ; in France it is 80 AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
Page 95
... French that rhetoric is not science , and that appearance is not as valuable as real- ity . The worship of prestige- that is to say , of falsehood ; the passion for vainglory - that is to say , for smoke and noise ; these are what must ...
... French that rhetoric is not science , and that appearance is not as valuable as real- ity . The worship of prestige- that is to say , of falsehood ; the passion for vainglory - that is to say , for smoke and noise ; these are what must ...
Page 178
... French mind , according to Gioberti , apprehends only the outward form of truth , and exag- gerates it by isolating it , so that it acts as a solvent upon the realities with which it works . It takes the shadow for the sub- stance , the ...
... French mind , according to Gioberti , apprehends only the outward form of truth , and exag- gerates it by isolating it , so that it acts as a solvent upon the realities with which it works . It takes the shadow for the sub- stance , the ...
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