Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xv
... Everything of a local or private character that could be excluded was ex- cluded . The object of the Editors in their choice of passages for publication was de- clared to be simply ' the reproduction of the moral and intellectual ...
... Everything of a local or private character that could be excluded was ex- cluded . The object of the Editors in their choice of passages for publication was de- clared to be simply ' the reproduction of the moral and intellectual ...
Page xxxv
... everything presented to it , has arisen dur- ing the last three hundred years . Like the spirit of the Renaissance and of the clas- sical age , it attracts into its orbit all the great works of contemporary intelligence . ' Quinet ...
... everything presented to it , has arisen dur- ing the last three hundred years . Like the spirit of the Renaissance and of the clas- sical age , it attracts into its orbit all the great works of contemporary intelligence . ' Quinet ...
Page xliv
... everything that was intellectually distinguished Geneva , as it was the guardian , broadly speaking , of the scientific and literary tra- ditions of the little State , we can easily imagine how galling such a social ostracism must have ...
... everything that was intellectually distinguished Geneva , as it was the guardian , broadly speaking , of the scientific and literary tra- ditions of the little State , we can easily imagine how galling such a social ostracism must have ...
Page xlvii
... everything slip as soon as the hope of being loved for them and by them had for- saken me . A hermit against my will , I have not even found peace in solitude , because my inmost conscience has not been any better satisfied than my ...
... everything slip as soon as the hope of being loved for them and by them had for- saken me . A hermit against my will , I have not even found peace in solitude , because my inmost conscience has not been any better satisfied than my ...
Page l
... 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 , science , stirred in him no mere sense of curiosity ...
... 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 , science , stirred in him no mere sense of curiosity ...
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