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Page vii
... produced on him by books . But his Journal was , above all , the confidant of his most private and intimate thoughts ; a means whereby the thinker became conscious of his own inner life ; a safe shelter wherein his questionings of fate ...
... produced on him by books . But his Journal was , above all , the confidant of his most private and intimate thoughts ; a means whereby the thinker became conscious of his own inner life ; a safe shelter wherein his questionings of fate ...
Page x
... produced by Amiel's thought on minds of a type essentially alien from his own . There is a leaven of something positive and austere , of something which , for want of a better name , one calls Puritanism , in Amiel , which escapes the ...
... produced by Amiel's thought on minds of a type essentially alien from his own . There is a leaven of something positive and austere , of something which , for want of a better name , one calls Puritanism , in Amiel , which escapes the ...
Page xii
... produced the miniature Terror which forced Sismondi into exile , had been for a while laid to sleep by the events of 1814. But the slumber was a short one at Geneva as elsewhere , and when Rossi quitted the Republic for France in 1833 ...
... produced the miniature Terror which forced Sismondi into exile , had been for a while laid to sleep by the events of 1814. But the slumber was a short one at Geneva as elsewhere , and when Rossi quitted the Republic for France in 1833 ...
Page xiii
... produced in Geneva by M. Pictet's Lectures on Esthetics in 1840 - the first ever delivered in a town in which the Beautiful had been for centuries regarded as the rival and enemy of the True . ' He who is now writing , ' says Amiel ...
... produced in Geneva by M. Pictet's Lectures on Esthetics in 1840 - the first ever delivered in a town in which the Beautiful had been for centuries regarded as the rival and enemy of the True . ' He who is now writing , ' says Amiel ...
Page xvi
... produced all the ideas of our historical age , and during another half - century , perhaps another century , notre grande affaire sera de les repenser ? ' He is inclined to compare the influence of German ideas on the modern world to ...
... produced all the ideas of our historical age , and during another half - century , perhaps another century , notre grande affaire sera de les repenser ? ' He is inclined to compare the influence of German ideas on the modern world to ...
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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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