Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xiii
... able Introduction from the pen of M. Ed- mond Scherer , the well - known French critic , who had been for many years one of Amiel's most valued friends , and it was prefaced also by a little Avertissement , in which the ' Editors ...
... able Introduction from the pen of M. Ed- mond Scherer , the well - known French critic , who had been for many years one of Amiel's most valued friends , and it was prefaced also by a little Avertissement , in which the ' Editors ...
Page xviii
... able criticisms , to which we shall find occa- sion to recur . In these two volumes of pensées , ' said M. Renan , without any sac- rifice of truth to artistic effect , we have both the perfect mirror of a modern mind of the best type ...
... able criticisms , to which we shall find occa- sion to recur . In these two volumes of pensées , ' said M. Renan , without any sac- rifice of truth to artistic effect , we have both the perfect mirror of a modern mind of the best type ...
Page xxv
... looking back on the history of the Republic , and able to measure the strength of the Radical force in Europe after the fall of Charles X. , could -comm have felt much doubt but that a few more years INTRODUCTION . XXV.
... looking back on the history of the Republic , and able to measure the strength of the Radical force in Europe after the fall of Charles X. , could -comm have felt much doubt but that a few more years INTRODUCTION . XXV.
Page xxvii
... able , while review- ing one of M. Pictet's books , to give grate- ful expression to his sense of obligation . Writing in 1856 he describes the effect produced in Geneva by M. Pictet's Lectures on Esthetics in 1840. the first ever deliv ...
... able , while review- ing one of M. Pictet's books , to give grate- ful expression to his sense of obligation . Writing in 1856 he describes the effect produced in Geneva by M. Pictet's Lectures on Esthetics in 1840. the first ever deliv ...
Page lxvii
... able to understand my friend better , and to soothe his suffer- ing by a sympathy which would have been a mixture of pity and admiration . ' Was it that all the while Amiel felt him- self sure of his revanche ? that he knew the value of ...
... able to understand my friend better , and to soothe his suffer- ing by a sympathy which would have been a mixture of pity and admiration . ' Was it that all the while Amiel felt him- self sure of his revanche ? that he knew the value of ...
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