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Page iv
... present Edition is due to the care and pains of Mr. George Seton of St. Bennet's , Edinburgh , to whom the Translator desires to express her sincere thanks . PREFACE THIS translation of Amiel's Journal Intime is primarily ad-
... present Edition is due to the care and pains of Mr. George Seton of St. Bennet's , Edinburgh , to whom the Translator desires to express her sincere thanks . PREFACE THIS translation of Amiel's Journal Intime is primarily ad-
Page vii
... desire . The reader will find in it , not a volume of Memoirs , but the confidences of a solitary thinker , the meditations of a philosopher for whom the things of the soul were the sovereign realities of existence . ' Thus modestly ...
... desire . The reader will find in it , not a volume of Memoirs , but the confidences of a solitary thinker , the meditations of a philosopher for whom the things of the soul were the sovereign realities of existence . ' Thus modestly ...
Page xi
... desire there is to know something more than its original editors and M. Scherer have yet told us about the personal history of the man who wrote it - about his education , his habits , and his friends . Perhaps some day this wish may ...
... desire there is to know something more than its original editors and M. Scherer have yet told us about the personal history of the man who wrote it - about his education , his habits , and his friends . Perhaps some day this wish may ...
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... desire is the sum of all desires , and what I seek to know is the sum of all different kinds of knowledge . Always the complete , the absolute , the teres atque rotundum ! And it was this antagonism , or rather this fusion of traditions ...
... desire is the sum of all desires , and what I seek to know is the sum of all different kinds of knowledge . Always the complete , the absolute , the teres atque rotundum ! And it was this antagonism , or rather this fusion of traditions ...
Page xxiii
... desire to know : - ' Amiel , ' says M. Scherer , ' read everything . ' In the second , an extraordinary power of sustained and concentrated thought , and a passionate , almost a religious , delight in the exercise of his power ...
... desire to know : - ' Amiel , ' says M. Scherer , ' read everything . ' In the second , an extraordinary power of sustained and concentrated thought , and a passionate , almost a religious , delight in the exercise of his power ...
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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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