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Page 4
... labour are æsthetically inferior to the others . In the next place , because our old rustic peasant poetry is dead , and the peas- ant , when he tries to share the music or the poetry of the cultivated classes , only suc- ceeds in ...
... labour are æsthetically inferior to the others . In the next place , because our old rustic peasant poetry is dead , and the peas- ant , when he tries to share the music or the poetry of the cultivated classes , only suc- ceeds in ...
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... labours at what she hates , she weaves her own shroud , and piles up the stones of her own tomb . God may well forgive us , for we know not what we do . ' 6 Just as the sum of force is always iden- tical in the material universe , and ...
... labours at what she hates , she weaves her own shroud , and piles up the stones of her own tomb . God may well forgive us , for we know not what we do . ' 6 Just as the sum of force is always iden- tical in the material universe , and ...
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... labours to increase his life or to lessen it , according as he aims at cultivating his faculties or at systematically deadening them . To employ one's individual efforts for - the increase of good in the world , this 330 AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
... labours to increase his life or to lessen it , according as he aims at cultivating his faculties or at systematically deadening them . To employ one's individual efforts for - the increase of good in the world , this 330 AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
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... labour might easily lead me to his point of view ; but once appeal to the heart , and I feel the con- templative attitude untenable . Pity , good- ness , charity , and devotion reclaim their rights , and insist even upon the first place ...
... labour might easily lead me to his point of view ; but once appeal to the heart , and I feel the con- templative attitude untenable . Pity , good- ness , charity , and devotion reclaim their rights , and insist even upon the first place ...
Page 51
... natural and acquired , qual- ities of mind and heart . What years of labour , what study and comparison , are needed to bring the critical judgment to maturity ! Like AMIEL'S JOURNAL . 51 power of work and of memory was immense ...
... natural and acquired , qual- ities of mind and heart . What years of labour , what study and comparison , are needed to bring the critical judgment to maturity ! Like AMIEL'S JOURNAL . 51 power of work and of memory was immense ...
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