Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xxii
... nature , to the cry of anguish which makes itself heard in the pages of these remarkable confessions . ' - seems to ... natural con- sequence of the success of the book that the more it penetrates , the greater desire there is to know ...
... nature , to the cry of anguish which makes itself heard in the pages of these remarkable confessions . ' - seems to ... natural con- sequence of the success of the book that the more it penetrates , the greater desire there is to know ...
Page xxix
... thing ; here , for those who know the Journal Intime , there is already something characteristic , some- thing which foretells the future . For in- - stance , after dwelling with evident zest on the nature INTRODUCTION . xxix.
... thing ; here , for those who know the Journal Intime , there is already something characteristic , some- thing which foretells the future . For in- - stance , after dwelling with evident zest on the nature INTRODUCTION . xxix.
Page xxxii
... nature . With his extraordinary power of ' throwing himself into the object ' . of effacing himself and his own personality in the presence of the thing to be understood and absorbed - he must have passed these years of travel and ...
... nature . With his extraordinary power of ' throwing himself into the object ' . of effacing himself and his own personality in the presence of the thing to be understood and absorbed - he must have passed these years of travel and ...
Page lvi
... nature , and warns us , as the letters of Obermann in their day warned the gen- eration of George Sand , that with the rise of new intellectual perceptions new spiritual dangers come into being , and that across the path of continuous ...
... nature , and warns us , as the letters of Obermann in their day warned the gen- eration of George Sand , that with the rise of new intellectual perceptions new spiritual dangers come into being , and that across the path of continuous ...
Page lxiv
... nature as a whole , is the critical - the tendency which , in the realm of action and concrete performance , carries ... natural consequences - What timidity of soul , paralysis of the will , complete self - dis- trust . ' To know is ...
... nature as a whole , is the critical - the tendency which , in the realm of action and concrete performance , carries ... natural consequences - What timidity of soul , paralysis of the will , complete self - dis- trust . ' To know is ...
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