Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page v
... reasons for these variations at length . They depend upon certain differences between the Eng- lish and the French public , which are more readily felt than explained . Some of the passages which I have left untranslated seemed to me to ...
... reasons for these variations at length . They depend upon certain differences between the Eng- lish and the French public , which are more readily felt than explained . Some of the passages which I have left untranslated seemed to me to ...
Page lxxvii
... reasons , to his sisters and his friends . And , in gen- eral , the pathetic interest of the book for all whose sympathy answers to what George Sand calls les tragédies que la pensée aper- çoit et que l'œil ne voit point , ' is very ...
... reasons , to his sisters and his friends . And , in gen- eral , the pathetic interest of the book for all whose sympathy answers to what George Sand calls les tragédies que la pensée aper- çoit et que l'œil ne voit point , ' is very ...
Page lxxx
... reasons for this striking transformation of a man's position -a transformation which , as M. Scherer says , will rank among the curiosities of literary history ? In other words , what has given IXXX AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
... reasons for this striking transformation of a man's position -a transformation which , as M. Scherer says , will rank among the curiosities of literary history ? In other words , what has given IXXX AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
Page 22
... reason and reasoning , but un- able to construct anything ; for construc- tion rests upon feeling , instinct , and will . One finds them mistaking philosophic con- sciousness for realising power , the redemp- tion of the intelligence ...
... reason and reasoning , but un- able to construct anything ; for construc- tion rests upon feeling , instinct , and will . One finds them mistaking philosophic con- sciousness for realising power , the redemp- tion of the intelligence ...
Page 55
... reason is that the man , on the whole , makes himself by his own activity , and that the woman is , on the whole , made by her situation ; that the one modifies and shapes circumstance by his own energy , while the gentleness of the ...
... reason is that the man , on the whole , makes himself by his own activity , and that the woman is , on the whole , made by her situation ; that the one modifies and shapes circumstance by his own energy , while the gentleness of the ...
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