Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page vi
... understand a life . Besides , we English are in many ways more akin to Protestant and Puritan Geneva than the French readers to whom the original Journal primarily addresses itself , and some of the entries I have kept have probably ...
... understand a life . Besides , we English are in many ways more akin to Protestant and Puritan Geneva than the French readers to whom the original Journal primarily addresses itself , and some of the entries I have kept have probably ...
Page ix
... understanding through a novel or a newspaper , is yet not enough to allow them to understand and appreciate a book containing subtle and complicated forms of expression . I believe there are many such to be found among the reading ...
... understanding through a novel or a newspaper , is yet not enough to allow them to understand and appreciate a book containing subtle and complicated forms of expression . I believe there are many such to be found among the reading ...
Page xv
... understanding of Amiel's intellectual history , but nothing more . Everything of a local or private character that could be excluded was ex- cluded . The object of the Editors in their choice of passages for publication was de- clared ...
... understanding of Amiel's intellectual history , but nothing more . Everything of a local or private character that could be excluded was ex- cluded . The object of the Editors in their choice of passages for publication was de- clared ...
Page xlviii
... with perfect security . He awakened in us but one regret ; we could not understand how it was a man so richly gifted produced noth- ing , or only trivialities . ' - In these last words of M. Scherer's we have xlviii AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
... with perfect security . He awakened in us but one regret ; we could not understand how it was a man so richly gifted produced noth- ing , or only trivialities . ' - In these last words of M. Scherer's we have xlviii AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
Page liv
... understand that a man in whom experiences of this kind become habitual is likely to lose his hold upon the normal in- terests of life . What are politics or litera- ture to such a mind but fragments without real importance - dwarfed ...
... understand that a man in whom experiences of this kind become habitual is likely to lose his hold upon the normal in- terests of life . What are politics or litera- ture to such a mind but fragments without real importance - dwarfed ...
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