Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xi
... friend and critic , M. Edmond Scherer , from whose valuable and interesting study , prefixed to the French Journal , as well as from certain materials in his possession which he has very kindly ... friends and readers here PREFACE . xi.
... friend and critic , M. Edmond Scherer , from whose valuable and interesting study , prefixed to the French Journal , as well as from certain materials in his possession which he has very kindly ... friends and readers here PREFACE . xi.
Page xii
... friends and readers here and there for one who lived alone , and died sadly persuaded that his life had been a barren mistake ; whereas , all the while- such is the irony of things he had been in reality working out the mission assigned ...
... friends and readers here and there for one who lived alone , and died sadly persuaded that his life had been a barren mistake ; whereas , all the while- such is the irony of things he had been in reality working out the mission assigned ...
Page xiii
... friends , and it was prefaced also by a little Avertissement , in which the ' Editors ' . - that is to say , the Genevese friends to whom the care and publication of the Journal had been in the first instance entrusted described in a ...
... friends , and it was prefaced also by a little Avertissement , in which the ' Editors ' . - that is to say , the Genevese friends to whom the care and publication of the Journal had been in the first instance entrusted described in a ...
Page xv
... friend , ' while M. Scherer expressly dis- claimed any biographical intentions , and limited his Introduction as far as ... friends , whose re- serve and indecision of character had in many respects spoilt his life , and alienated the ...
... friend , ' while M. Scherer expressly dis- claimed any biographical intentions , and limited his Introduction as far as ... friends , whose re- serve and indecision of character had in many respects spoilt his life , and alienated the ...
Page xvii
... friend's Jour- nal . ' The man who , during his lifetime , was incapable of giving us any deliberate or conscious work worthy of his powers , has now left us , after his death , a book which will not die . For the secret of Amiel's ...
... friend's Jour- nal . ' The man who , during his lifetime , was incapable of giving us any deliberate or conscious work worthy of his powers , has now left us , after his death , a book which will not die . For the secret of Amiel's ...
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