Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xviii
... passion for intellectual adventure . Still , the rank of the book was fully recognised , and the first article especially contained some remark- able criticisms , to which we shall find occa- sion to recur . In these two volumes of ...
... passion for intellectual adventure . Still , the rank of the book was fully recognised , and the first article especially contained some remark- able criticisms , to which we shall find occa- sion to recur . In these two volumes of ...
Page xxxi
... passion which burns in the Journal , and one hears , as it were , the first accents of a melancholy , the first expression of a mood of mind , which became in after years the fixed characteristic of the writer . ' At twenty he was ...
... passion which burns in the Journal , and one hears , as it were , the first accents of a melancholy , the first expression of a mood of mind , which became in after years the fixed characteristic of the writer . ' At twenty he was ...
Page xlv
... passionate respect for truth , were all offended by the noise , the narrowness , the dogmatism of the triumphant democracy . So that there was no making up on the one side for what he had lost on the other , and he proudly resigned ...
... passionate respect for truth , were all offended by the noise , the narrowness , the dogmatism of the triumphant democracy . So that there was no making up on the one side for what he had lost on the other , and he proudly resigned ...
Page l
... passionate , almost a religious , delight in the exercise of his power . Knowledge , science , stirred in him no mere sense of curiosity or cold critical instinct , he came to his desk as to an altar . ' A friend who knew him well ...
... passionate , almost a religious , delight in the exercise of his power . Knowledge , science , stirred in him no mere sense of curiosity or cold critical instinct , he came to his desk as to an altar . ' A friend who knew him well ...
Page li
... passion in him to an abnormal degree . For four years he had devoted himself to the alternate excite- ment and satisfaction of this passion . He had read enormously , thought enormously , and in the absence of any imperative claim on ...
... passion in him to an abnormal degree . For four years he had devoted himself to the alternate excite- ment and satisfaction of this passion . He had read enormously , thought enormously , and in the absence of any imperative claim on ...
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