Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page ix
... believe there are many such to be found among the reading public , and among those who would naturally take a strong interest in such a life and mind as Amiel's , were it not for the barrier of lan- guage . It is , at any rate , in the ...
... believe there are many such to be found among the reading public , and among those who would naturally take a strong interest in such a life and mind as Amiel's , were it not for the barrier of lan- guage . It is , at any rate , in the ...
Page 6
... believe no one but himself , and that what we have to do is to discover the true image of the founder behind all the prismatic refractions through which it comes to us , and which alter it more or less . A ray of heavenly light ...
... believe no one but himself , and that what we have to do is to discover the true image of the founder behind all the prismatic refractions through which it comes to us , and which alter it more or less . A ray of heavenly light ...
Page 63
... we can attempt . To believe in a good and fatherly God , who educates us , who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb , who punishes only when he must , and takes away only with regret ; this thought , or rather AMIEL'S JOURNAL . 63.
... we can attempt . To believe in a good and fatherly God , who educates us , who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb , who punishes only when he must , and takes away only with regret ; this thought , or rather AMIEL'S JOURNAL . 63.
Page 66
... believe in it . I will have none of those passions of straw which dazzle , burn up , and wither ; I invoke , I await , and I hope for the love which is - great , pure , and earnest , which lives and 66 AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
... believe in it . I will have none of those passions of straw which dazzle , burn up , and wither ; I invoke , I await , and I hope for the love which is - great , pure , and earnest , which lives and 66 AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
Page 84
... believe that we are what we think ourselves to be . The mathematical intelligence and the historical intelligence ( the two classes of intelligences ) can never understand each other . When they succeed in doing so as to words , they ...
... believe that we are what we think ourselves to be . The mathematical intelligence and the historical intelligence ( the two classes of intelligences ) can never understand each other . When they succeed in doing so as to words , they ...
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