Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xvii
... death , a book which will not die . For the secret of Amiel's malady is sublime , and the expres- sion of it wonderful . ' So ran one of the last paragraphs of the Introduction , and one may see in the sentences another in- stance of ...
... death , a book which will not die . For the secret of Amiel's malady is sublime , and the expres- sion of it wonderful . ' So ran one of the last paragraphs of the Introduction , and one may see in the sentences another in- stance of ...
Page xxvi
... death of the mother the little family was broken up , the boy passing into the care of one relative , his two sisters into that of another . Certain notes in M. Scherer's possession throw a little light here and there upon a childhood ...
... death of the mother the little family was broken up , the boy passing into the care of one relative , his two sisters into that of another . Certain notes in M. Scherer's possession throw a little light here and there upon a childhood ...
Page li
... death of Hegel and the break - up of the Hegelian idea into a num- ber of different and conflicting sections of philosophical opinion . He was under the spell of German synthesis , of that tradi- 6 tional , involuntary effort which the ...
... death of Hegel and the break - up of the Hegelian idea into a num- ber of different and conflicting sections of philosophical opinion . He was under the spell of German synthesis , of that tradi- 6 tional , involuntary effort which the ...
Page lxi
... death all that this fine critic and profound thinker had given to the world , after a life entirely spent in the pursuit of letters , was , in the first place , a few volumes of poems which had had no effect except on a small number of ...
... death all that this fine critic and profound thinker had given to the world , after a life entirely spent in the pursuit of letters , was , in the first place , a few volumes of poems which had had no effect except on a small number of ...
Page lxvii
... death , and , as we have seen , he left certain literary instructions , ' dated seven years before his last illness , in which his executors were directed to publish such parts of it as might seem to them to possess any general interest ...
... death , and , as we have seen , he left certain literary instructions , ' dated seven years before his last illness , in which his executors were directed to publish such parts of it as might seem to them to possess any general interest ...
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