Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page viii
... present Edition is due to the care and pains of Mr. George Seton of St. Bennet's , Edinburgh , to whom the Translator desires to express her sincere thanks . viii PREFACE . HIS translation of Amiel's Journal In- Tune is.
... present Edition is due to the care and pains of Mr. George Seton of St. Bennet's , Edinburgh , to whom the Translator desires to express her sincere thanks . viii PREFACE . HIS translation of Amiel's Journal In- Tune is.
Page xiv
... desire . The reader will find in it , not a volume of Memoirs , but the con- fidences of a solitary thinker , the medita- tions of a philosopher for whom the things of the soul were the sovereign realities of existence . ' Thus modestly ...
... desire . The reader will find in it , not a volume of Memoirs , but the con- fidences of a solitary thinker , the medita- tions of a philosopher for whom the things of the soul were the sovereign realities of existence . ' Thus modestly ...
Page xxii
... desire there is to know something more than its original editors and M. Scherer have yet told us about the personal history of the man who wrote it- about his education , his habits , and his friends . Perhaps some day this wish may ...
... desire there is to know something more than its original editors and M. Scherer have yet told us about the personal history of the man who wrote it- about his education , his habits , and his friends . Perhaps some day this wish may ...
Page xxxix
... desire is the sum of all desires , and what I seek to know is the sum of all different kinds of knowledge . Always the complete , the ab- solute , the teres atque rotundum . ' And it was this antagonism , or rather this fusion of ...
... desire is the sum of all desires , and what I seek to know is the sum of all different kinds of knowledge . Always the complete , the ab- solute , the teres atque rotundum . ' And it was this antagonism , or rather this fusion of ...
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... desire to know : ' Amiel , ' says M. Scherer , ' read everything . ' In the second , an extraordinary power of sustained and concentrated thought , and a passionate , almost a religious , delight in the exercise of his power . Knowledge ...
... desire to know : ' Amiel , ' says M. Scherer , ' read everything . ' In the second , an extraordinary power of sustained and concentrated thought , and a passionate , almost a religious , delight in the exercise of his power . Knowledge ...
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