Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Volume 2 |
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... sung a number of songs , drinking songs , ballads , romances , but all more or less heavy and ugly . The muse has never touched our country people , and the Swiss race is not graceful even in its gaiety . A AMIEL'S JOUrnal . 3.
... sung a number of songs , drinking songs , ballads , romances , but all more or less heavy and ugly . The muse has never touched our country people , and the Swiss race is not graceful even in its gaiety . A AMIEL'S JOUrnal . 3.
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The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel Henri Frédéric Amiel. race is not graceful even in its gaiety . A bear in high spirits - this is what one thinks of . The poetry it produces too is des- perately vulgar and commonplace . Why ...
The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel Henri Frédéric Amiel. race is not graceful even in its gaiety . A bear in high spirits - this is what one thinks of . The poetry it produces too is des- perately vulgar and commonplace . Why ...
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... race has not altogether wasted its time . Hence there are three possible views of history : the view of the pessimist , who starts from the ideal ; the view of the optimist , who compares the past with the present ; and the view of the ...
... race has not altogether wasted its time . Hence there are three possible views of history : the view of the pessimist , who starts from the ideal ; the view of the optimist , who compares the past with the present ; and the view of the ...
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... race or time . And the reason is that the deceiving light starts from our own mind : the light is our religion . Everything changes with it . It is religion which gives to our kaleidoscope , if not the material of the figures , at least ...
... race or time . And the reason is that the deceiving light starts from our own mind : the light is our religion . Everything changes with it . It is religion which gives to our kaleidoscope , if not the material of the figures , at least ...
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... but good ought to be , and injustice ought not to be . Such is the creed of the human race . Nature will be conquered by spirit : the eternal will triumph over time . 1st April 1870. — I am inclined to believe that AMIEL'S JOURNAL . 59.
... but good ought to be , and injustice ought not to be . Such is the creed of the human race . Nature will be conquered by spirit : the eternal will triumph over time . 1st April 1870. — I am inclined to believe that AMIEL'S JOURNAL . 59.
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