Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xii
... things he had been in reality working out the mission assigned him in the spiritual economy , and faithfully obeying the secret mandate which had im- pressed itself upon his youthful conscious- ' Let the living live ; and you , gather ...
... things he had been in reality working out the mission assigned him in the spiritual economy , and faithfully obeying the secret mandate which had im- pressed itself upon his youthful conscious- ' Let the living live ; and you , gather ...
Page xxxii
... thing to be understood and absorbed - he must have passed these years of travel and acquisition in a state of ... things , countries , peoples , books ; I have a greater mass of experiences . ' This fact , indeed , -- I have seen ...
... thing to be understood and absorbed - he must have passed these years of travel and acquisition in a state of ... things , countries , peoples , books ; I have a greater mass of experiences . ' This fact , indeed , -- I have seen ...
Page xxxix
... things : What I desire is the sum of all desires , and what I seek to know is the sum of all different kinds of knowledge . Always the complete , the ab- solute , the teres atque rotundum . ' And it was this antagonism , or rather this ...
... things : What I desire is the sum of all desires , and what I seek to know is the sum of all different kinds of knowledge . Always the complete , the ab- solute , the teres atque rotundum . ' And it was this antagonism , or rather this ...
Page l
... things . " ' Thought , ' he says somewhere in the Journal , is like opium . It can in- toxicate us and yet leave us broad awake . ' To this intoxication of thought he seems to have been always specially liable , and his German ...
... things . " ' Thought , ' he says somewhere in the Journal , is like opium . It can in- toxicate us and yet leave us broad awake . ' To this intoxication of thought he seems to have been always specially liable , and his German ...
Page lxxxviii
... things were realities . He asks me " What does M. Renan make of sin ? " Eh bien , je crois que je le supprime . ' But it is just because Amiel is profoundly sen- sitive to the problems of evil and responsi- bility , and M. Renan ...
... things were realities . He asks me " What does M. Renan make of sin ? " Eh bien , je crois que je le supprime . ' But it is just because Amiel is profoundly sen- sitive to the problems of evil and responsi- bility , and M. Renan ...
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