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Page xv
... sense ; but there is something else too - there is a breath of that same speculative passion which burns in the Journal , and one hears , as it were , the first accents of a melancholy , the first expression of a mood of mind , which ...
... sense ; but there is something else too - there is a breath of that same speculative passion which burns in the Journal , and one hears , as it were , the first accents of a melancholy , the first expression of a mood of mind , which ...
Page xvi
... sense of reaction against Geneva . There are signs that he had felt himself somewhat isolated at school and college , and that in the German world his special individuality , with its dreaminess and its melan- choly , found congenial ...
... sense of reaction against Geneva . There are signs that he had felt himself somewhat isolated at school and college , and that in the German world his special individuality , with its dreaminess and its melan- choly , found congenial ...
Page xvii
... sense - than from German literature . But he raises no question as to the inevitable subjection of the French to the German mind in matters of exact thought and knowledge . ' To study philology , mythology , history , without reading ...
... sense - than from German literature . But he raises no question as to the inevitable subjection of the French to the German mind in matters of exact thought and knowledge . ' To study philology , mythology , history , without reading ...
Page xxiv
... sense of intellectual responsibility , and far from the sounds of human life , the stranger and the weirder grew the hallucinations of thought . The Journal gives marvellous expression to them : ' I can find no words for what I feel My ...
... sense of intellectual responsibility , and far from the sounds of human life , the stranger and the weirder grew the hallucinations of thought . The Journal gives marvellous expression to them : ' I can find no words for what I feel My ...
Page xxvi
... sense of spiritual 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 ...
... sense of spiritual 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 ...
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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 |
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