Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xiv
... thoughts ; a means whereby the thinker became conscious of his own inner life ; a safe shelter wherein his ... thought or value as experience . The publication of this volume is the fulfil- ment of this desire . The reader will ...
... thoughts ; a means whereby the thinker became conscious of his own inner life ; a safe shelter wherein his ... thought or value as experience . The publication of this volume is the fulfil- ment of this desire . The reader will ...
Page xxii
... thought and disappointed effort be at last securing for its author among those contemporaries who in his lifetime knew nothing of him . It is a natural con- sequence of the success of the book that the more it penetrates , the greater ...
... thought and disappointed effort be at last securing for its author among those contemporaries who in his lifetime knew nothing of him . It is a natural con- sequence of the success of the book that the more it penetrates , the greater ...
Page xxviii
... thought ; they were to him an important step in that continuous initiation which we call life , they filled him with fresh intuitions , they brought near to him the horizons of his dreams . And , as always happens with a first - rate ...
... thought ; they were to him an important step in that continuous initiation which we call life , they filled him with fresh intuitions , they brought near to him the horizons of his dreams . And , as always happens with a first - rate ...
Page xxxii
... thought , to the development of such a nature . With his extraordinary power of ' throwing himself into the object ' . of effacing himself and his own personality in the presence of the thing to be understood and absorbed - he must have ...
... thought , to the development of such a nature . With his extraordinary power of ' throwing himself into the object ' . of effacing himself and his own personality in the presence of the thing to be understood and absorbed - he must have ...
Page xxxv
... thought , even though we may not be prepared to assent to all the sweeping terms in which a writer like M. Taine describes it . ' From 1780 to 1830 , ' says M. Taine , ' Germany produced all the ideas of our historical age , and during ...
... thought , even though we may not be prepared to assent to all the sweeping terms in which a writer like M. Taine describes it . ' From 1780 to 1830 , ' says M. Taine , ' Germany produced all the ideas of our historical age , and during ...
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