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Page xi
... passed into the power of the French Republic , and would seem to have married and settled in the halcyon days fol- lowing the restoration of Genevese independence in 1814. Amiel was born when the prosperity of Geneva was at its height ...
... passed into the power of the French Republic , and would seem to have married and settled in the halcyon days fol- lowing the restoration of Genevese independence in 1814. Amiel was born when the prosperity of Geneva was at its height ...
Page xii
... passing into the care of one relative , his two sisters into that of another . Certain notes in M. Scherer's possession throw a little light here and there upon a childhood and youth which must necessarily have been a little bare and ...
... passing into the care of one relative , his two sisters into that of another . Certain notes in M. Scherer's possession throw a little light here and there upon a childhood and youth which must necessarily have been a little bare and ...
Page xv
... passed these years of travel and acquisition in a state of continuous intellectual energy and excitement . It is in no spirit of conceit that he says in 1857 , comparing himself with Maine de Biran , ' This nature is , as it were , only ...
... passed these years of travel and acquisition in a state of continuous intellectual energy and excitement . It is in no spirit of conceit that he says in 1857 , comparing himself with Maine de Biran , ' This nature is , as it were , only ...
Page xviii
... passed before me and in me since April 1843 , ' he writes in the Journal , two or three months after his return . ' The last seven years have been the most important of my life ; they have been the novitiate of my intelligence , the ...
... passed before me and in me since April 1843 , ' he writes in the Journal , two or three months after his return . ' The last seven years have been the most important of my life ; they have been the novitiate of my intelligence , the ...
Page xxiv
... passing . It seems to me that I have become a statue on the banks of the river of time , that I am the spectator of some mystery , and shall issue from it old , or no longer capable of age . ' Or again : ' I am a spectator , so to speak ...
... passing . It seems to me that I have become a statue on the banks of the river of time , that I am the spectator of some mystery , and shall issue from it old , or no longer capable of age . ' Or again : ' I am a spectator , so to speak ...
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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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