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Page viii
... moral and intellectual physiognomy of their friend , ' while M. Scherer expressly disclaimed any biographical intentions , and limited his Introduction as far as possible to a study of the character and thought of Amiel . ' The contents ...
... moral and intellectual physiognomy of their friend , ' while M. Scherer expressly disclaimed any biographical intentions , and limited his Introduction as far as possible to a study of the character and thought of Amiel . ' The contents ...
Page x
... moral , as Amiel . In your pathetic description of the volonté qui voudrait vouloir , mais im puissante à se fournir à elle - même des motifs , of the repugnance for all action - the soul petrified by the sentiment of the infinite , in ...
... moral , as Amiel . In your pathetic description of the volonté qui voudrait vouloir , mais im puissante à se fournir à elle - même des motifs , of the repugnance for all action - the soul petrified by the sentiment of the infinite , in ...
Page xix
... Moral Philosophy in 1854. Thus at twenty - eight , without any struggle to succeed , he had gained , it would have seemed , that safe foothold in life which should be all the philosopher or the critic wants to secure the full and ...
... Moral Philosophy in 1854. Thus at twenty - eight , without any struggle to succeed , he had gained , it would have seemed , that safe foothold in life which should be all the philosopher or the critic wants to secure the full and ...
Page xxvi
... moral relations which develop round the first -all these ideas intoxicate me sometimes . ' But in vain . ' Reality , the present , the irreparable , the necessary , repel and even terrify me . I have too much imagination , conscience ...
... moral relations which develop round the first -all these ideas intoxicate me sometimes . ' But in vain . ' Reality , the present , the irreparable , the necessary , repel and even terrify me . I have too much imagination , conscience ...
Page xxxv
... moral passion , that strain- ing 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 ...
... moral passion , that strain- ing 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 ...
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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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