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Page xviii
... never came to Paris . Paris , he thinks , would have counteracted the Hegelian influences brought to bear upon him at Berlin , * would have taught him cheerfulness , and taught him also the art of writ- ing , not beautiful fragments ...
... never came to Paris . Paris , he thinks , would have counteracted the Hegelian influences brought to bear upon him at Berlin , * would have taught him cheerfulness , and taught him also the art of writ- ing , not beautiful fragments ...
Page xxvii
... never learnt to appreciate him at his true worth . We did justice no doubt to a knowledge as varied as it was wide , to his vast stores of reading , to that cosmopolitanism of the best kind which he had brought back with him from his ...
... never learnt to appreciate him at his true worth . We did justice no doubt to a knowledge as varied as it was wide , to his vast stores of reading , to that cosmopolitanism of the best kind which he had brought back with him from his ...
Page xxix
... never accomplishing , and my energy is swallowed up in a kind of barren curiosity . ' Not that he surrenders himself to the nature which is stronger than he all at once . His sense of duty rebels , his conscience suffers , and he makes ...
... never accomplishing , and my energy is swallowed up in a kind of barren curiosity . ' Not that he surrenders himself to the nature which is stronger than he all at once . His sense of duty rebels , his conscience suffers , and he makes ...
Page xxxi
... never have touched our feeling as he now does ; what makes him so interesting is that there was in him a fond of heredity , a temperament and disposition , which were perpetually reacting against the oppression of the . in- tellect and ...
... never have touched our feeling as he now does ; what makes him so interesting is that there was in him a fond of heredity , a temperament and disposition , which were perpetually reacting against the oppression of the . in- tellect and ...
Page xxxii
... never left him . Paris attracted him , as it attracts all who cling to letters , and he gained at one time or another a certain amount of acquaintance with French literary men . In 1852 we find him for a time brought into contact with ...
... never left him . Paris attracted him , as it attracts all who cling to letters , and he gained at one time or another a certain amount of acquaintance with French literary men . In 1852 we find him for a time brought into contact with ...
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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 |
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