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Page iii
... less unfamiliar to the general public , yet seemed to me valuable as supplying some of that surrounding detail , that setting , which helps one to understand a life . Besides , we English are in many ways more akin to Protestant and ...
... less unfamiliar to the general public , yet seemed to me valuable as supplying some of that surrounding detail , that setting , which helps one to understand a life . Besides , we English are in many ways more akin to Protestant and ...
Page v
... less complete under- standing through a novel or a newspaper , is yet not enough to allow them to understand and appreciate a book containing subtle and complicated forms of expression . I believe there are many such to be found among ...
... less complete under- standing through a novel or a newspaper , is yet not enough to allow them to understand and appreciate a book containing subtle and complicated forms of expression . I believe there are many such to be found among ...
Page xi
... less steady supply had enriched the little Republic during the three centuries following the Reformation . Amiel's ancestors , like those of Sismondi , left Languedoc for Geneva after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes . His father ...
... less steady supply had enriched the little Republic during the three centuries following the Reformation . Amiel's ancestors , like those of Sismondi , left Languedoc for Geneva after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes . His father ...
Page xii
... and youth which must necessarily have been a little bare and forlorn . They show us a sensitive impressionable boy , of health rather delicate than robust , already disposed to a more or less melancholy and dreamy xii AMIEL'S JOURNAL.
... and youth which must necessarily have been a little bare and forlorn . They show us a sensitive impressionable boy , of health rather delicate than robust , already disposed to a more or less melancholy and dreamy xii AMIEL'S JOURNAL.
Page xiii
... less melancholy and dreamy view of life , and showing a deep interest in those religious problems and ideas in which the air of Geneva has been steeped since the days of Calvin . The religious teaching which a Genevese lad undergoes ...
... less melancholy and dreamy view of life , and showing a deep interest in those religious problems and ideas in which the air of Geneva has been steeped since the days of Calvin . The religious teaching which a Genevese lad undergoes ...
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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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