Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page v
... untranslated seemed to me to overweight the introspec- tive side of the Journal , already so full- to overweight it , at any rate , for English readers . Others which I have retained , V though they often relate to local names and books ,
... untranslated seemed to me to overweight the introspec- tive side of the Journal , already so full- to overweight it , at any rate , for English readers . Others which I have retained , V though they often relate to local names and books ,
Page xli
... side of the intel- lectual life , has become difficult and painful to him , and he has developed what he himself calls a wavering manner , born of doubt and scruple . ' How few could have foreseen the failure in public and practical ...
... side of the intel- lectual life , has become difficult and painful to him , and he has developed what he himself calls a wavering manner , born of doubt and scruple . ' How few could have foreseen the failure in public and practical ...
Page xliii
... side , and as M. Scherer points out , he could accept a non - political post at the hands of the new government , two years after the violent measures which had marked its accession , without breaking any pledges or sacrificing ...
... side , and as M. Scherer points out , he could accept a non - political post at the hands of the new government , two years after the violent measures which had marked its accession , without breaking any pledges or sacrificing ...
Page xlv
... making up on the one side for what he had lost on the other , and he proudly resigned himself to an isolation and a reserve which , reinforcing , as they did , certain native weaknesses of character , had the INTRODUCTION . xlv.
... making up on the one side for what he had lost on the other , and he proudly resigned himself to an isolation and a reserve which , reinforcing , as they did , certain native weaknesses of character , had the INTRODUCTION . xlv.
Page li
... side of him , the accumula- tive , reflective faculties had grown out of all proportion to the rest of the personality . Nor had any special subject the power to fix him . Had he been in France , what Sainte - Beuve calls the French ...
... side of him , the accumula- tive , reflective faculties had grown out of all proportion to the rest of the personality . Nor had any special subject the power to fix him . Had he been in France , what Sainte - Beuve calls the French ...
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