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Page viii
... Everything of a local or private character that could be excluded was excluded . The object of the Editors in their choice of passages for publication was de- clared to be simply the reproduction of the moral and intellectual ...
... Everything of a local or private character that could be excluded was excluded . The object of the Editors in their choice of passages for publication was de- clared to be simply the reproduction of the moral and intellectual ...
Page xvi
... everything presented to it , has arisen during the last three hundred years . Like the spirit of the Renaissance and of the classical age , it attracts into its orbit all the great works of contem- porary intelligence . ' Quinet ...
... everything presented to it , has arisen during the last three hundred years . Like the spirit of the Renaissance and of the classical age , it attracts into its orbit all the great works of contem- porary intelligence . ' Quinet ...
Page xx
... everything that was intellectually distinguished in Geneva , as it was the guardian , broadly speaking , of the scientific and literary traditions of the little State , we can easily imagine how galling such a social ostracism must have ...
... everything that was intellectually distinguished in Geneva , as it was the guardian , broadly speaking , of the scientific and literary traditions of the little State , we can easily imagine how galling such a social ostracism must have ...
Page xxi
... Incapable of taking any interest in my talents for their own sake , I let everything slip as soon as the hope of being loved for them and by them had forsaken me . A hermit against my will , I have not even found peace INTRODUCTION xxi.
... Incapable of taking any interest in my talents for their own sake , I let everything slip as soon as the hope of being loved for them and by them had forsaken me . A hermit against my will , I have not even found peace INTRODUCTION xxi.
Page xxvi
... everything healing and restoring . I am afraid of an imperfect , a faulty synthesis , and I linger in the provisional , from timidity and from loyalty .'- ' As soon as a thing attracts me I turn away from it ; or rather , I can- not ...
... everything healing and restoring . I am afraid of an imperfect , a faulty synthesis , and I linger in the provisional , from timidity and from loyalty .'- ' As soon as a thing attracts me I turn away from it ; or rather , I can- not ...
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