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Page v
... hope that a certain . number of additional readers may be thereby attracted to the Journal Intime that this translation of it has been under- taken . The difficulties of the translation have been sometimes considerable , owing , first ...
... hope that a certain . number of additional readers may be thereby attracted to the Journal Intime that this translation of it has been under- taken . The difficulties of the translation have been sometimes considerable , owing , first ...
Page xxi
... 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.
... 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 xxxv
... hope of something beyond , which is the life of the religious soul - they are all here , and the Dernier Mot with which the sad little volume ends is poor Amiel's epitaph on himself , his conscious farewell to that more public aspect of ...
... hope of something beyond , which is the life of the religious soul - they are all here , and the Dernier Mot with which the sad little volume ends is poor Amiel's epitaph on himself , his conscious farewell to that more public aspect of ...
Page xli
... hope which springs from duty , or rather from the moral facts of consciousness , as a flower springs from the soil . Conscience and the moral progress of the race , these are his points of depart- ure . Faith in the reality of the moral ...
... hope which springs from duty , or rather from the moral facts of consciousness , as a flower springs from the soil . Conscience and the moral progress of the race , these are his points of depart- ure . Faith in the reality of the moral ...
Page xliii
... hope and fear , and the moral steadfastness which is the inmost note of it - to these meditative lives , which , through all the ebb and flow of thought , and in the dim ways of doubt and suffering , rich in knowledge , and yet rich in ...
... hope and fear , and the moral steadfastness which is the inmost note of it - to these meditative lives , which , through all the ebb and flow of thought , and in the dim ways of doubt and suffering , rich in knowledge , and yet rich in ...
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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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