Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xvii
... true now as it was in the days when La Bruyère rated the critics of his time for their in- capacity to praise , and praise at once , that ' the surest test of a man's critical power is his judgment of contemporaries . ' M. Re- nan , I ...
... true now as it was in the days when La Bruyère rated the critics of his time for their in- capacity to praise , and praise at once , that ' the surest test of a man's critical power is his judgment of contemporaries . ' M. Re- nan , I ...
Page xxvii
... True . ' He who is now writ- ing , ' says Amiel , ' was then among M. Pic- tet's youngest hearers . Since then twenty experiences of the same kind have followed each other in his intellectual experience , yet none has effaced the deep ...
... True . ' He who is now writ- ing , ' says Amiel , ' was then among M. Pic- tet's youngest hearers . Since then twenty experiences of the same kind have followed each other in his intellectual experience , yet none has effaced the deep ...
Page xxix
... true progress and true civilisa- tion . ' The Renaissance is treated as a dis- astrous but inevitable crisis , in which the idealism of the Middle Ages was dethroned by the naturalism of modern times , - ' The Renaissance perhaps robbed ...
... true progress and true civilisa- tion . ' The Renaissance is treated as a dis- astrous but inevitable crisis , in which the idealism of the Middle Ages was dethroned by the naturalism of modern times , - ' The Renaissance perhaps robbed ...
Page xxx
... True , there still re- mains the enormous , the insuperable diffi- culty of expression , of fit and adequate communication from mind to mind ; there still remains the question whether , after all , ' he who discovers a new world in the ...
... True , there still re- mains the enormous , the insuperable diffi- culty of expression , of fit and adequate communication from mind to mind ; there still remains the question whether , after all , ' he who discovers a new world in the ...
Page lii
... true , is interesting , is worthy to fix my attention . All that is particular is exclusive , and all that is exclusive repels me . There is noth- ing non - exclusive but the All ; my end is communion with Being through the whole of ...
... true , is interesting , is worthy to fix my attention . All that is particular is exclusive , and all that is exclusive repels me . There is noth- ing non - exclusive but the All ; my end is communion with Being through the whole of ...
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