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Page vi
... consciousness : Let the living live ; and you , gather together your thoughts , leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas ; you will be most useful so . " MARY A. WARD . INTRODUCTION It was in the last days of December 1882 vi PREFACE.
... consciousness : Let the living live ; and you , gather together your thoughts , leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas ; you will be most useful so . " MARY A. WARD . INTRODUCTION It was in the last days of December 1882 vi PREFACE.
Page vii
... conscious of his own inner life ; a safe shelter wherein his questionings of fate and the future , the voice of grief , of self - ex- amination and confession , the soul's cry for inward peace , might make themselves freely heard ...
... conscious of his own inner life ; a safe shelter wherein his questionings of fate and the future , the voice of grief , of self - ex- amination and confession , the soul's cry for inward peace , might make themselves freely heard ...
Page ix
... conscious work worthy of his powers , has now left us , after his death , a book which will not die . For the secret of Amiel's malady is sublime , and the expression of it wonderful . ' So ran one of the last paragraphs of the ...
... conscious work worthy of his powers , has now left us , after his death , a book which will not die . For the secret of Amiel's malady is sublime , and the expression of it wonderful . ' So ran one of the last paragraphs of the ...
Page xxi
... conscious of such an idea . But ought I not to have been conscious of it ? ' he asks himself anxiously , - ' ought I not to have been more careful to win the good opinion of others , more determined to conquer their hostility or ...
... conscious of such an idea . But ought I not to have been conscious of it ? ' he asks himself anxiously , - ' ought I not to have been more careful to win the good opinion of others , more determined to conquer their hostility or ...
Page xxiv
... consciousness is withdrawn into itself ; I hear my heart beating , and my life passing . It seems to me that I have become a statue on the banks of the river of time , that I am the spectator of some mystery , and shall issue from it ...
... consciousness is withdrawn into itself ; I hear my heart beating , and my life passing . It seems to me that I have become a statue on the banks of the river of time , that I am the spectator of some mystery , and shall issue from it ...
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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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