Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page ix
... hope that a certain number of additional readers may be thereby attracted to the Journal Intime that this translation of it has been under- taken . The difficulties of the translation have been sometimes considerable , owing , first of ...
... hope that a certain number of additional readers may be thereby attracted to the Journal Intime that this translation of it has been under- taken . The difficulties of the translation have been sometimes considerable , owing , first of ...
Page xlvii
... 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 heart . ' Still one may no doubt ...
... 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 heart . ' Still one may no doubt ...
Page lxxvii
... hope of something beyond , which is the life of the religious soul- -they are all here , and the Dernier Mot with which the sad little volume ends is poor Amiel's epitaph on himself , his conscious farewell to that more public aspect of ...
... hope of something beyond , which is the life of the religious soul- -they are all here , and the Dernier Mot with which the sad little volume ends is poor Amiel's epitaph on himself , his conscious farewell to that more public aspect of ...
Page xc
... hope which springs from duty , or rather from the moral facts of consciousness , as a flower springs from the soil . Conscience and the moral progress of the race , these are his points of departure . Faith in the reality of the moral ...
... hope which springs from duty , or rather from the moral facts of consciousness , as a flower springs from the soil . Conscience and the moral progress of the race , these are his points of departure . Faith in the reality of the moral ...
Page xcvi
... hope and fear , and the moral steadfast- ness which is the inmost note of it - to these meditative lives , which , through all the ebb and flow of thought , and in the dim ways of doubt and suffering , rich in knowl- edge , and yet rich ...
... hope and fear , and the moral steadfast- ness which is the inmost note of it - to these meditative lives , which , through all the ebb and flow of thought , and in the dim ways of doubt and suffering , rich in knowl- edge , and yet rich ...
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adore ćsthetics Amiel Atheism beauty become believe charm Châteaubriand Christianity Church conscience consciousness critical death desire destiny divine doubt dream duty eternal everything evil existence faith feel force France Freethinkers Freethought French friends Geneva Genevese Genghis Khan genius George Sand German give Goethe happiness harmony heart heaven HENRI-FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL hope human idea ideal illusion imagination impression individual infinite inner instinct intellectual Journal Intime justice kind labour Liberal Christianity liberty literary literature contrasted living Madame de Staël Maine de Biran matter melancholy ment mind monad moral mystery nature ness never once one's oneself ourselves passion peace Pensées perfection philosophy poet poetry possess realise reality religion religious Rousseau Sainte-Beuve Scherer Schopenhauer secret seems sense Shibboleth society soul speak spirit talent things thought tion true truth understand universal Victor Cherbuliez Victor Hugo victory whole word writer