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Page xiii
... religious problems and ideas in which the air of Geneva has been steeped since the days of Calvin . The religious teaching which a Genevese lad undergoes prior to his admission to full Church membership , made a deep impression on him ...
... religious problems and ideas in which the air of Geneva has been steeped since the days of Calvin . The religious teaching which a Genevese lad undergoes prior to his admission to full Church membership , made a deep impression on him ...
Page xxiii
... religious , delight in the exercise of his power . Knowledge , science , stirred in him no mere sense of curiosity or cold critical instinct , ' he came to his desk as to an altar . ' ' A friend who knew him well , ' says M. Scherer ...
... religious , delight in the exercise of his power . Knowledge , science , stirred in him no mere sense of curiosity or cold critical instinct , ' he came to his desk as to an altar . ' ' A friend who knew him well , ' says M. Scherer ...
Page xxviii
... religious organisations , literature , art - was of the keenest kind . And yet at the time of his death all that this fine critic and profound thinker had given to the world , after a life entirely spent in the pursuit of letters , was ...
... religious organisations , literature , art - was of the keenest kind . And yet at the time of his death all that this fine critic and profound thinker had given to the world , after a life entirely spent in the pursuit of letters , was ...
Page xxxv
... 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 farewell to that more public aspect of his life in which he had suffered much and achieved ...
... 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 farewell to that more public aspect of his life in which he had suffered much and achieved ...
Page xxxvi
... its beauty of manner that fine literary expression in which Amiel has been able to clothe the subtler processes of thought , no less than the secrets of 1 religious feeling , or the aspects of natural scenery xxxvi AMIEL'S JOURNAL.
... its beauty of manner that fine literary expression in which Amiel has been able to clothe the subtler processes of thought , no less than the secrets of 1 religious feeling , or the aspects of natural scenery xxxvi AMIEL'S JOURNAL.
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