Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xliii
... whole existing staff of the Academy , then and now the centre of Genevese education , and up to 1847 the stronghold of the mod- erate ideas of 1814 , followed by the ap- pointment of new men less likely to hamper the Radical order of ...
... whole existing staff of the Academy , then and now the centre of Genevese education , and up to 1847 the stronghold of the mod- erate ideas of 1814 , followed by the ap- pointment of new men less likely to hamper the Radical order of ...
Page xlv
... whole , it was almost impossible for Amiel to escape from his grievance and establish a sufficient bar- rier of friendly interests between himself and the society which ignored him . There can be no doubt that he suffered , both in mind ...
... whole , it was almost impossible for Amiel to escape from his grievance and establish a sufficient bar- rier of friendly interests between himself and the society which ignored him . There can be no doubt that he suffered , both in mind ...
Page lii
... whole of things , the sum of Knowledge , the Infi- nite , the Absolute , alone had value or real- ity . In his own words : There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute ; for feeling except in the infinite ; for the soul except ...
... whole of things , the sum of Knowledge , the Infi- nite , the Absolute , alone had value or real- ity . In his own words : There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute ; for feeling except in the infinite ; for the soul except ...
Page lix
... whole , ' says M. Scherer , Amiel offered his hearers , not so much a series of positive teachings , as an index of subjects , a framework — what the Germans call a Schematismus . The skele- ton was admirably put together , and excel ...
... whole , ' says M. Scherer , Amiel offered his hearers , not so much a series of positive teachings , as an index of subjects , a framework — what the Germans call a Schematismus . The skele- ton was admirably put together , and excel ...
Page lxiv
... whole , is the critical - the tendency which , in the realm of action and concrete performance , carries him , as Amiel expresses it , droit au dé- faut , ' and makes him conscious at once of the weak point , the germ of failure in a ...
... whole , is the critical - the tendency which , in the realm of action and concrete performance , carries him , as Amiel expresses it , droit au dé- faut , ' and makes him conscious at once of the weak point , the germ of failure in a ...
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