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Page vi
... reality working out the mission assigned him in the spiritual economy , and faithfully obeying the secret mandate which had impressed itself upon his youthful consciousness : Let the living live ; and you , gather together your thoughts ...
... reality working out the mission assigned him in the spiritual economy , and faithfully obeying the secret mandate which had impressed itself upon his youthful consciousness : Let the living live ; and you , gather together your thoughts ...
Page vii
... realities of existence . ' Thus modestly announced , the little volume made its quiet début . It contained nothing , or almost nothing , of ordinary biographical material . M. Scherer's Introduction supplied such facts as INTRODUCTION ...
... realities of existence . ' Thus modestly announced , the little volume made its quiet début . It contained nothing , or almost nothing , of ordinary biographical material . M. Scherer's Introduction supplied such facts as INTRODUCTION ...
Page xxiv
... reality . In his own words : ' There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute ; for feeling except in the infinite ; for the soul except in the divine . Nothing finite is true , is interesting , is worthy to fix my attention ...
... reality . In his own words : ' There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute ; for feeling except in the infinite ; for the soul except in the divine . Nothing finite is true , is interesting , is worthy to fix my attention ...
Page xxvi
... reality bequeathed to us by the baffled and solitary thinker whose via dolorosa is before us . The manner in which this intellectual idiosyncrasy we have been describing gradually affected Amiel's life supplies abundant proof of its ...
... reality bequeathed to us by the baffled and solitary thinker whose via dolorosa is before us . The manner in which this intellectual idiosyncrasy we have been describing gradually affected Amiel's life supplies abundant proof of its ...
Page xxxiv
... reality of the inner life which has left behind it so definite an image of itself . And every now and then the poems add a detail , a new impression , which seems by contrast to give fresh value to the fine - spun speculations , the ...
... reality of the inner life which has left behind it so definite an image of itself . And every now and then the poems add a detail , a new impression , which seems by contrast to give fresh value to the fine - spun speculations , the ...
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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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