Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page vi
... less unfamiliar to the gen- eral public , yet seemed to me valuable as supplying some of that surrounding detail , that setting , which helps one to understand a life . Besides , we English are in many ways more akin to Protestant and ...
... less unfamiliar to the gen- eral public , yet seemed to me valuable as supplying some of that surrounding detail , that setting , which helps one to understand a life . Besides , we English are in many ways more akin to Protestant and ...
Page ix
... less complete understanding through a novel or a newspaper , is yet not enough to allow them to understand and appreciate a book containing subtle and complicated forms of expression . I believe there are many such to be found among the ...
... less complete understanding through a novel or a newspaper , is yet not enough to allow them to understand and appreciate a book containing subtle and complicated forms of expression . I believe there are many such to be found among the ...
Page xxiii
... less steady supply had enriched the little Republic during the three centuries follow- ing the Reformation . Amiel's ancestors , like those of Sismondi , left Languedoc for Geneva after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes . His father ...
... less steady supply had enriched the little Republic during the three centuries follow- ing the Reformation . Amiel's ancestors , like those of Sismondi , left Languedoc for Geneva after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes . His father ...
Page xxvi
... less melancholy and dreamy view of life , and showing 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 ...
... less melancholy and dreamy view of life , and showing 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 ...
Page xxxiii
... less into the social and intellectual life of half a dozen European countries , and was famil- iar not only with the books , but , to a large extent also , with the men of his generation . The meditative and introspective gift was in ...
... less into the social and intellectual life of half a dozen European countries , and was famil- iar not only with the books , but , to a large extent also , with the men of his generation . The meditative and introspective gift was in ...
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