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Page vi
... matter I cherish a grateful remembrance . But with all the help that has been so freely given me , not only by these friends but by others , I confide the little book to the public with many a misgiving ! May it at least win a few more ...
... matter I cherish a grateful remembrance . But with all the help that has been so freely given me , not only by these friends but by others , I confide the little book to the public with many a misgiving ! May it at least win a few more ...
Page xvii
... matters of exact thought and knowledge . ' To study philology , mythology , history , without reading German , ' he is as ready to confess as any one else is to condemn oneself to remain in every department twenty years behind the ...
... matters of exact thought and knowledge . ' To study philology , mythology , history , without reading German , ' he is as ready to confess as any one else is to condemn oneself to remain in every department twenty years behind the ...
Page xxviii
... , with its boundless horizons and its indescribable exaltations , seems endangered . Is he not about to place between himself and the forms of specula- tive truth some barrier of sense and matter - to xxviii AMIEL'S JOURNAL.
... , with its boundless horizons and its indescribable exaltations , seems endangered . Is he not about to place between himself and the forms of specula- tive truth some barrier of sense and matter - to xxviii AMIEL'S JOURNAL.
Page xxix
... matter - to give up the real for the apparent , the substance for the shadow ? One is reminded of Clough's cry under a somewhat similar experience : - ' If this pure solace should desert my mind , : - What were all else ? I dare not ...
... matter - to give up the real for the apparent , the substance for the shadow ? One is reminded of Clough's cry under a somewhat similar experience : - ' If this pure solace should desert my mind , : - What were all else ? I dare not ...
Page xxxvi
... matter . We shall read the Letters if they appear , as we now read the Poems , for the Journal's sake . The man himself , as poet , teacher , and littérateur , produced no appreciable effect on his gener- ation ; but the posthumous ...
... matter . We shall read the Letters if they appear , as we now read the Poems , for the Journal's sake . The man himself , as poet , teacher , and littérateur , produced no appreciable effect on his gener- ation ; but the posthumous ...
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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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