Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xviii
... mind for several years past , and to which it is to be hoped he has now given expression with sufficient emphasis and brusquerie to satisfy even his passion for intellectual adventure . Still , the rank of the book was fully recognised ...
... mind for several years past , and to which it is to be hoped he has now given expression with sufficient emphasis and brusquerie to satisfy even his passion for intellectual adventure . Still , the rank of the book was fully recognised ...
Page xxx
... mind to mind ; there still remains the question whether , after all , ' he who discovers a new world in the depths of the invisible would not do wisely to plant on it a flag known to himself alone , and , like Achilles , " devour his ...
... mind to mind ; there still remains the question whether , after all , ' he who discovers a new world in the depths of the invisible would not do wisely to plant on it a flag known to himself alone , and , like Achilles , " devour his ...
Page l
... mind and heart which Amiel brought back with him from Berlin ? In the first place , an omniv- orous desire to know : ' Amiel , ' says M. Scherer , ' read everything . ' In the second , an extraordinary power of sustained and ...
... mind and heart which Amiel brought back with him from Berlin ? In the first place , an omniv- orous desire to know : ' Amiel , ' says M. Scherer , ' read everything . ' In the second , an extraordinary power of sustained and ...
Page lii
... mind makes , generation after generation , to find the unity of experience , to range its accumulations from life and thought under a more and more perfect , a more and more exhaustive , formula . Not this study or that study , not this ...
... mind makes , generation after generation , to find the unity of experience , to range its accumulations from life and thought under a more and more perfect , a more and more exhaustive , formula . Not this study or that study , not this ...
Page liv
... mind but fragments without real importance - dwarfed reflections of ideal truths for which neither language nor institutions provide any adequate expres- sion ! How is it possible to take seriously what is so manifestly relative and ...
... mind but fragments without real importance - dwarfed reflections of ideal truths for which neither language nor institutions provide any adequate expres- sion ! How is it possible to take seriously what is so manifestly relative and ...
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