Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page v
... interest to give my reasons for these variations at length . They depend upon certain differences between the Eng- lish and the French public , which are more readily felt than explained . Some of the passages which I have left ...
... interest to give my reasons for these variations at length . They depend upon certain differences between the Eng- lish and the French public , which are more readily felt than explained . Some of the passages which I have left ...
Page ix
... interest in such a life and mind as Amiel's , were it not for the barrier of lan- guage . It is , at any rate , in the hope that a certain number of additional readers may be thereby attracted to the Journal Intime that this translation ...
... interest in such a life and mind as Amiel's , were it not for the barrier of lan- guage . It is , at any rate , in the hope that a certain number of additional readers may be thereby attracted to the Journal Intime that this translation ...
Page xxvi
... interest in those religious problems and ideas in which the air of Geneva has been steeped since the days of Calvin . The religious teaching which a Genevese lad undergoes prior to his admission to full Church membership , made a deep ...
... interest in those religious problems and ideas in which the air of Geneva has been steeped since the days of Calvin . The religious teaching which a Genevese lad undergoes prior to his admission to full Church membership , made a deep ...
Page xxxvii
... interest and value . Not that he succeeds altogether in the task of fusion . For one who was to write and think in French , he was perhaps too long in Germany ; he had drunk too deeply of German thought ; he had been too much dazzled by ...
... interest and value . Not that he succeeds altogether in the task of fusion . For one who was to write and think in French , he was perhaps too long in Germany ; he had drunk too deeply of German thought ; he had been too much dazzled by ...
Page xxxix
... interest and suggestiveness of his mental history . The language he speaks is the language of that French criticism which we have Sainte - Beuve's authority for it is best described by the motto of Montaigne , ' Un peu de chaque chose ...
... interest and suggestiveness of his mental history . The language he speaks is the language of that French criticism which we have Sainte - Beuve's authority for it is best described by the motto of Montaigne , ' Un peu de chaque chose ...
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