Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xxiii
... passed into the power of the French Republic , and would seem to have married and settled in the halcyon days following the restoration of Genevese independence in 1814. Amiel was born when the prosperity of Geneva was at its height ...
... passed into the power of the French Republic , and would seem to have married and settled in the halcyon days following the restoration of Genevese independence in 1814. Amiel was born when the prosperity of Geneva was at its height ...
Page xxvi
... passing into the care of one relative , his two sisters into that of another . Certain notes in M. Scherer's possession throw a little light here and there upon a childhood and youth which must necessarily have been a little bare and ...
... passing into the care of one relative , his two sisters into that of another . Certain notes in M. Scherer's possession throw a little light here and there upon a childhood and youth which must necessarily have been a little bare and ...
Page xxxii
... passed these years of travel and acquisition in a state of continuous intellec- tual energy and excitement . It is in no spirit of conceit that he says in 1857 , com- paring himself with Maine de Biran , ' This nature is , as it were ...
... passed these years of travel and acquisition in a state of continuous intellec- tual energy and excitement . It is in no spirit of conceit that he says in 1857 , com- paring himself with Maine de Biran , ' This nature is , as it were ...
Page xl
... passed before me and in me since April 1843 , ' he writes in the Jour- nal , two or three months after his return . ' The last seven years have been the most important of my life ; they have been the novitiate of my intelligence , the ...
... passed before me and in me since April 1843 , ' he writes in the Jour- nal , two or three months after his return . ' The last seven years have been the most important of my life ; they have been the novitiate of my intelligence , the ...
Page lxix
... passed away , feeling that all was over , and the great game of life lost for ever . It still remains for us to gather up a few facts and impressions of a different kind from those which we have been dwelling on , which may serve to ...
... passed away , feeling that all was over , and the great game of life lost for ever . It still remains for us to gather up a few facts and impressions of a different kind from those which we have been dwelling on , which may serve to ...
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