Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Volume 2Macmillan, 1905 - 721 pages |
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... spirits - this is what one thinks of . The poetry it produces too is des- perately vulgar and commonplace . Why ? In the first place , because , in spite of the pretences of our democratic philosophies , the classes whose backs are bent ...
... spirits - this is what one thinks of . The poetry it produces too is des- perately vulgar and commonplace . Why ? In the first place , because , in spite of the pretences of our democratic philosophies , the classes whose backs are bent ...
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... spirit ? Alas ! I cannot persuade myself to believe it possible for an instant . I see infirmity and weakness close upon me , I feel I cannot do without affection , and I know that I have no ambi- tion , and that my faculties are ...
... spirit ? Alas ! I cannot persuade myself to believe it possible for an instant . I see infirmity and weakness close upon me , I feel I cannot do without affection , and I know that I have no ambi- tion , and that my faculties are ...
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... spirit of the inner life . Whenever I wish to revive my con- sciousness of my own tradition , it is pleas- ant to me to read over this little gnomic collection which has had such scant justice done to it , and which , were it another's ...
... spirit of the inner life . Whenever I wish to revive my con- sciousness of my own tradition , it is pleas- ant to me to read over this little gnomic collection which has had such scant justice done to it , and which , were it another's ...
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... spirit of God works upon the human mass . What is perishing is not the admirable and the adorable ; it is simply the ... spirits , the incomparable spectacle of human history , led by that all - powerful Dramatur- gus whom we call ...
... spirit of God works upon the human mass . What is perishing is not the admirable and the adorable ; it is simply the ... spirits , the incomparable spectacle of human history , led by that all - powerful Dramatur- gus whom we call ...
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... the law of nature , and the law of the spirit , which is the leaven of its coarse paste , has but rarely succeeded in raising it into gen- erous expansion . ― From the point of view of the ideal , humanity AMIEL'S JOURNAL . 21.
... the law of nature , and the law of the spirit , which is the leaven of its coarse paste , has but rarely succeeded in raising it into gen- erous expansion . ― From the point of view of the ideal , humanity AMIEL'S JOURNAL . 21.
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