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Page vii
... means whereby the thinker became conscious of his own inner life ; a safe shelter wherein his questionings of fate and the future , the voice of grief , of self - ex- amination and confession , the soul's cry for inward peace , might ...
... means whereby the thinker became conscious of his own inner life ; a safe shelter wherein his questionings of fate and the future , the voice of grief , of self - ex- amination and confession , the soul's cry for inward peace , might ...
Page xxiv
... means of happiness , led Amiel straight into the wilderness of abstract speculation . And the longer he lingered in the wilder- ness , unchecked by any sense of intellectual responsibility , and far from the sounds of human life , the ...
... means of happiness , led Amiel straight into the wilderness of abstract speculation . And the longer he lingered in the wilder- ness , unchecked by any sense of intellectual responsibility , and far from the sounds of human life , the ...
Page xxvii
... means the invariable , accompaniment of the literary gift , must have been fairly strong in him also . For the Journal Intime runs to 17,000 folio pages of MS . , and his half - dozen * M. Alphonse Rivier , now Professor of ...
... means the invariable , accompaniment of the literary gift , must have been fairly strong in him also . For the Journal Intime runs to 17,000 folio pages of MS . , and his half - dozen * M. Alphonse Rivier , now Professor of ...
Page xxx
... means of the Journal , the key to a problem which seemed to me hardly serious , and which I now feel to have been tragic . A kind of remorse seizes me that I was not able to under- stand my friend better , and to soothe his suffering by ...
... means of the Journal , the key to a problem which seemed to me hardly serious , and which I now feel to have been tragic . A kind of remorse seizes me that I was not able to under- stand my friend better , and to soothe his suffering by ...
Page xxxi
... mean anything to anybody ? A life of no account ! When all is added up - nothing ! ' In passages like these there is no ... means of satisfying a need of expres- sion which otherwise could find no outlet ; ' a grief - cheating device ...
... mean anything to anybody ? A life of no account ! When all is added up - nothing ! ' In passages like these there is no ... means of satisfying a need of expres- sion which otherwise could find no outlet ; ' a grief - cheating device ...
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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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