Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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... never very strong in him , was gradually weakened and destroyed by an untoward combination of circumstance . The low health from which he suffered more or less from his boyhood , and then the depressing influences of the social ...
... never very strong in him , was gradually weakened and destroyed by an untoward combination of circumstance . The low health from which he suffered more or less from his boyhood , and then the depressing influences of the social ...
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... never learnt to appreciate him at his true worth . We did justice no doubt to a knowledge as varied as it was wide , to his vast stores of reading , to that cosmopolitan- ism of the best kind which he had brought back with him from his ...
... never learnt to appreciate him at his true worth . We did justice no doubt to a knowledge as varied as it was wide , to his vast stores of reading , to that cosmopolitan- ism of the best kind which he had brought back with him from his ...
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... never accomplishing , and my energy is swallowed up in a kind of barren curiosity . ' Not that he surrenders himself to the nature which is stronger than he all at once . His sense of duty rebels , his conscience suffers , and he makes ...
... never accomplishing , and my energy is swallowed up in a kind of barren curiosity . ' Not that he surrenders himself to the nature which is stronger than he all at once . His sense of duty rebels , his conscience suffers , and he makes ...
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... never have touched our feeling as he now does ; what makes him so interesting is that there was in him a fond of heredity , a temperament and disposition , which were perpetually reacting against the oppression of the intellect and its ...
... never have touched our feeling as he now does ; what makes him so interesting is that there was in him a fond of heredity , a temperament and disposition , which were perpetually reacting against the oppression of the intellect and its ...
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... never left him . Paris attracted him , as it attracts all who cling to letters , and he gained at one time or another a certain amount of acquaint- . ance with French literary men . In 1852 we find him for a time brought into contact ...
... never left him . Paris attracted him , as it attracts all who cling to letters , and he gained at one time or another a certain amount of acquaint- . ance with French literary men . In 1852 we find him for a time brought into contact ...
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