Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page x
... philosophical language , which , according to his French critics , is not French even philosophical French - but German . Very often it has been impossi- ble to give any other than a literal render- ing of such passages , if the thought ...
... philosophical language , which , according to his French critics , is not French even philosophical French - but German . Very often it has been impossi- ble to give any other than a literal render- ing of such passages , if the thought ...
Page xlii
... Philosophy in 1854. Thus at twenty - eight , without any struggle to succeed , he had gained , it would have seemed , that safe foot- hold in life which should be all the philoso- pher or the critic wants to secure the full and fruitful ...
... Philosophy in 1854. Thus at twenty - eight , without any struggle to succeed , he had gained , it would have seemed , that safe foot- hold in life which should be all the philoso- pher or the critic wants to secure the full and fruitful ...
Page lix
... philosophical power which , as we know from the Journal , he might have lavished on his teaching , had the conditions been other than they were , the study of literature , and the study of philosophy INTRODUction . lix.
... philosophical power which , as we know from the Journal , he might have lavished on his teaching , had the conditions been other than they were , the study of literature , and the study of philosophy INTRODUction . lix.
Page lx
... philosophy as such , owe him nothing . But for the Journal his years of training and his years of teaching would have left equally little record behind them . His pupils at Geneva , ' writes one who was himself among the number ...
... philosophy as such , owe him nothing . But for the Journal his years of training and his years of teaching would have left equally little record behind them . His pupils at Geneva , ' writes one who was himself among the number ...
Page lxi
... philosophical work , and so enabled him to content the just expectations of his world . He began to write early , as is proved by the fact that at twenty he was a contributor to the best literary periodical which Geneva possessed . He ...
... philosophical work , and so enabled him to content the just expectations of his world . He began to write early , as is proved by the fact that at twenty he was a contributor to the best literary periodical which Geneva possessed . He ...
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