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Page viii
... beginning to be generally recognised that another book has been added to the books which live - not to those , perhaps , which live in the public view , much discussed , much praised , the objects of feeling and of struggle , but to ...
... beginning to be generally recognised that another book has been added to the books which live - not to those , perhaps , which live in the public view , much discussed , much praised , the objects of feeling and of struggle , but to ...
Page xii
... beginning to find inimitable and characteristic expression in the stories of Töpffer . The country was governed by an aristocracy , which was not so much an aristocracy of birth as one of merit and intellect , and the moderate ...
... beginning to find inimitable and characteristic expression in the stories of Töpffer . The country was governed by an aristocracy , which was not so much an aristocracy of birth as one of merit and intellect , and the moderate ...
Page xx
... beginning with the revolutionary outbreak of November 1841 , the Radical party , led by James Fazy , had succeeded in ousting the Conservatives - that is to say , the governing class , which had ruled the Republic since the Restoration ...
... beginning with the revolutionary outbreak of November 1841 , the Radical party , led by James Fazy , had succeeded in ousting the Conservatives - that is to say , the governing class , which had ruled the Republic since the Restoration ...
Page 13
... beginning , and mediocrity freezes all desire . Equality engenders uniformity , and it is by sacrificing what is excellent , remarkable , and extra- ordinary that we get rid of what is bad . The whole becomes less barbarous , and at the ...
... beginning , and mediocrity freezes all desire . Equality engenders uniformity , and it is by sacrificing what is excellent , remarkable , and extra- ordinary that we get rid of what is bad . The whole becomes less barbarous , and at the ...
Page 14
... beginning we see for ever tending to produce and multiply differences , will it afterwards retrace its steps and obliterate them one by one ? And equality , which in the dawn of existence is mere inertia , torpor , and death , is it to ...
... beginning we see for ever tending to produce and multiply differences , will it afterwards retrace its steps and obliterate them one by one ? And equality , which in the dawn of existence is mere inertia , torpor , and death , is it to ...
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Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frederic Amiel - Primary Source ... Henri édéric Amiel,Humphry Ward No preview available - 2014 |
Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri Frederic Amiel Henri-Frederic Amiel No preview available - 2016 |
Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel Henri Frederic Amiel,Humphry Ward No preview available - 2018 |
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