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Page xxii
... conscience has not been any better satisfied than my heart . ' Still one may no doubt easily exaggerate this loneliness of Amiel's . His social difficulties represent rather a dull discomfort in his life , which in course of time , and ...
... conscience has not been any better satisfied than my heart . ' Still one may no doubt easily exaggerate this loneliness of Amiel's . His social difficulties represent rather a dull discomfort in his life , which in course of time , and ...
Page xxvi
... conscience , and penetration , and not enough character . The life of thought alone seems to me to have enough elasticity and immensity , to be free enough from the irreparable ; prac tical life makes me afraid . I am distrustful of ...
... conscience , and penetration , and not enough character . The life of thought alone seems to me to have enough elasticity and immensity , to be free enough from the irreparable ; prac tical life makes me afraid . I am distrustful of ...
Page xxix
... of duty rebels , his conscience suffers , and he makes resolution after resolution to shake himself free from the mental tradition which had taken such hold upon him -- to write , to produce , to satisfy his friends . INTRODUCTION xxix.
... of duty rebels , his conscience suffers , and he makes resolution after resolution to shake himself free from the mental tradition which had taken such hold upon him -- to write , to produce , to satisfy his friends . INTRODUCTION xxix.
Page xli
... Conscience and the moral progress of the race , these are his points of depart- ure . Faith in the reality of the moral law is what he clings to when his inherited creed has yielded to the pressure of the intellect , and after all the ...
... Conscience and the moral progress of the race , these are his points of depart- ure . Faith in the reality of the moral law is what he clings to when his inherited creed has yielded to the pressure of the intellect , and after all the ...
Page 8
... conscience is a solemn summons in the life of every man , solemn and awful as the trumpet of the last judgment . It cries , ' Art thou ready ? Give an account . Give an account of thy years , thy leisure , thy strength , thy studies ...
... conscience is a solemn summons in the life of every man , solemn and awful as the trumpet of the last judgment . It cries , ' Art thou ready ? Give an account . Give an account of thy years , thy leisure , thy strength , thy studies ...
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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 |
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