Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xci
... liberty the flower of necessity . ' Consciousness is the one fixed point in this boundless and . bottomless gulf of things , and the soul's inward law , as it has been painfully elabo- rated by human history , the only revelation of God ...
... liberty the flower of necessity . ' Consciousness is the one fixed point in this boundless and . bottomless gulf of things , and the soul's inward law , as it has been painfully elabo- rated by human history , the only revelation of God ...
Page xcii
... liberty'— ' Tout est bien , mon Dieu m'enveloppe . " Nor is this all . It is not only that Amiel's inmost thought and affections are stayed on this conception of a holy will at the root of nature and destiny , ' in a certain very real ...
... liberty'— ' Tout est bien , mon Dieu m'enveloppe . " Nor is this all . It is not only that Amiel's inmost thought and affections are stayed on this conception of a holy will at the root of nature and destiny , ' in a certain very real ...
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... liberty and breadth to thought , to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of univer- sal history , history from the point of view of geological periods , geology from the point of view of astronomy . When the duration of a ...
... liberty and breadth to thought , to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of univer- sal history , history from the point of view of geological periods , geology from the point of view of astronomy . When the duration of a ...
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... liberty must be reconquered ; it is the Church which is heretical , the Church whose sight is troubled and her heart timid . Whether we will or no , there is an esoteric doctrine , there is a relative revelation ; each man enters into ...
... liberty must be reconquered ; it is the Church which is heretical , the Church whose sight is troubled and her heart timid . Whether we will or no , there is an esoteric doctrine , there is a relative revelation ; each man enters into ...
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... liberty , which enslaves me to things or obliges me to be other than I could and ought to be , all which injures my idea of the perfect man , hurts me mor- tally , degrades and wounds me in mind , even beforehand . I abhor useless ...
... liberty , which enslaves me to things or obliges me to be other than I could and ought to be , all which injures my idea of the perfect man , hurts me mor- tally , degrades and wounds me in mind , even beforehand . I abhor useless ...
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