Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page x
... once terse and clear , is hard to find . Another difficulty has been his constant use of a technical philosophical language , which , according to his French critics , is not French even philosophical French - but German . Very often it ...
... once terse and clear , is hard to find . Another difficulty has been his constant use of a technical philosophical language , which , according to his French critics , is not French even philosophical French - but German . Very often it ...
Page xvii
... their in- capacity to praise , and praise at once , that ' the surest test of a man's critical power is his judgment of contemporaries . ' M. Re- nan , I think , with that exquisite literary sense INTRODUCTION . xvii.
... their in- capacity to praise , and praise at once , that ' the surest test of a man's critical power is his judgment of contemporaries . ' M. Re- nan , I think , with that exquisite literary sense INTRODUCTION . xvii.
Page xlii
... once an important position in his native town . After a public competition he was appointed , in 1849 , Professor of Esthetics and French Literature at the Academy of Geneva , a post which he held for four years , exchanging it for the ...
... once an important position in his native town . After a public competition he was appointed , in 1849 , Professor of Esthetics and French Literature at the Academy of Geneva , a post which he held for four years , exchanging it for the ...
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... once more into the region of pure thought , " conversing with ideas , enjoying the inmost life of things . " ' Thought , ' he says somewhere in the Journal , is like opium . It can in- toxicate us and yet leave us broad awake . ' To ...
... once more into the region of pure thought , " conversing with ideas , enjoying the inmost life of things . " ' Thought , ' he says somewhere in the Journal , is like opium . It can in- toxicate us and yet leave us broad awake . ' To ...
Page lv
... once dawned on the dazzled beholder ? The charm and the savour of everything relative and phenomenal is gone . A man may go on talking , teaching , writing — but the spring of personal action is broken ; his actions are like the actions ...
... once dawned on the dazzled beholder ? The charm and the savour of everything relative and phenomenal is gone . A man may go on talking , teaching , writing — but the spring of personal action is broken ; his actions are like the actions ...
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