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Page xii
... bring Geneva also into the whirlpool of poli- tical change . In the same year - 1833 - that M. Rossi had left Geneva , Henri Frédéric Amiel , at twelve years old , was left orphaned of both his parents . They had died comparatively ...
... bring Geneva also into the whirlpool of poli- tical change . In the same year - 1833 - that M. Rossi had left Geneva , Henri Frédéric Amiel , at twelve years old , was left orphaned of both his parents . They had died comparatively ...
Page xvii
... brings those elements in him which belong to his French inheritance — and something individual besides , which is not French but Genevese - to bear on his new acquisitions , and the result is of the highest literary interest and value ...
... brings those elements in him which belong to his French inheritance — and something individual besides , which is not French but Genevese - to bear on his new acquisitions , and the result is of the highest literary interest and value ...
Page xxix
... brings with it its natural consequences — timidity of soul , paralysis of the will , complete self - distrust . ' To know is enough for me ; expression seems to me often a profanity . What I lack is character , will , individuality ...
... brings with it its natural consequences — timidity of soul , paralysis of the will , complete self - distrust . ' To know is enough for me ; expression seems to me often a profanity . What I lack is character , will , individuality ...
Page xxxiii
... bring a certain gleam and sparkle into an otherwise sombre picture . Amiel was never a master of poetical form ; his verse , compared to his prose , is tame and fettered : it never reaches the glow and splendour of expression which mark ...
... bring a certain gleam and sparkle into an otherwise sombre picture . Amiel was never a master of poetical form ; his verse , compared to his prose , is tame and fettered : it never reaches the glow and splendour of expression which mark ...
Page 2
... bring us back to this study. Geneva, 20th April 1849. — It is six years1 to-day since I last left Geneva. How many journeys, how many impressions, observations, thoughts, how many forms of men and things, have since then passed before ...
... bring us back to this study. Geneva, 20th April 1849. — It is six years1 to-day since I last left Geneva. How many journeys, how many impressions, observations, thoughts, how many forms of men and things, have since then passed before ...
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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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