Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page x
... German . Very often it has been impossi- ble to give any other than a literal render- ing of such passages , if the thought of the original was to be preserved ; but in those cases where a choice was open to me , I have preferred the ...
... German . Very often it has been impossi- ble to give any other than a literal render- ing of such passages , if the thought of the original was to be preserved ; but in those cases where a choice was open to me , I have preferred the ...
Page xxxiv
... German thought took possession of him , that he be- came steeped not only in German methods of speculation , but in German modes of expression , in German forms of sentiment , which clung to him through life , and vitally affected both ...
... German thought took possession of him , that he be- came steeped not only in German methods of speculation , but in German modes of expression , in German forms of sentiment , which clung to him through life , and vitally affected both ...
Page xxxv
... German ideas on the mod- ern world to the ferment of the Renais- sance . No spiritual force ' more original , more ... German ideas inaugurated in France by Madame de Staël as the natural result of reaction from the eighteenth century ...
... German ideas on the mod- ern world to the ferment of the Renais- sance . No spiritual force ' more original , more ... German ideas inaugurated in France by Madame de Staël as the natural result of reaction from the eighteenth century ...
Page xxxvi
... German influence in French Romanticism has indeed been much disputed , but the debt of French metaphys- ics , French philology , and French histori- cal study , to German methods and German research during the last half - century is be ...
... German influence in French Romanticism has indeed been much disputed , but the debt of French metaphys- ics , French philology , and French histori- cal study , to German methods and German research during the last half - century is be ...
Page xxxvii
... German thought ; he had been too much dazzled by the spectacle of Berlin and its imposing intellectual activities . ' As to his literary talent , ' says M. Scherer , after dwelling on the rapid growth of his intel- lectual powers under ...
... German thought ; he had been too much dazzled by the spectacle of Berlin and its imposing intellectual activities . ' As to his literary talent , ' says M. Scherer , after dwelling on the rapid growth of his intel- lectual powers under ...
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