Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page x
... kind of shorthand , perfectly intelligible to a French- man , but for which an English equivalent , at once terse and clear , is hard to find . Another difficulty has been his constant use of a technical philosophical language , which ...
... kind of shorthand , perfectly intelligible to a French- man , but for which an English equivalent , at once terse and clear , is hard to find . Another difficulty has been his constant use of a technical philosophical language , which ...
Page xix
... M. Paul Bourget , a young and rising writer , whose article is perhaps chiefly interesting as showing the kind of effect produced by Amiel's thought on minds of a type essen- tially alien from his own . There is a leaven INTRODUCTION . xix.
... M. Paul Bourget , a young and rising writer , whose article is perhaps chiefly interesting as showing the kind of effect produced by Amiel's thought on minds of a type essen- tially alien from his own . There is a leaven INTRODUCTION . xix.
Page xxii
... kind of right to know as much as can be told it of the personalities which move and stir it . At present the biographical material available is extremely scanty , and if it were not for the kindness of M. Scherer , who has allowed - It ...
... kind of right to know as much as can be told it of the personalities which move and stir it . At present the biographical material available is extremely scanty , and if it were not for the kindness of M. Scherer , who has allowed - It ...
Page xxvii
... kind have followed each other in his intellectual experience , yet none has effaced the deep impression made upon him by these lectures . Coming as they did at a favourable moment , and answering many a positive question and many a ...
... kind have followed each other in his intellectual experience , yet none has effaced the deep impression made upon him by these lectures . Coming as they did at a favourable moment , and answering many a positive question and many a ...
Page xxviii
... kind one forgets , the student of those days delights in expressing to the professor of 1840 his sincere and filial grat- itude . ' Amiel's first literary production , or prac- tically his first , seems to have been the result partly of ...
... kind one forgets , the student of those days delights in expressing to the professor of 1840 his sincere and filial grat- itude . ' Amiel's first literary production , or prac- tically his first , seems to have been the result partly of ...
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