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Page iii
... side of the Journal , already so full - to overweight it , at any rate , for English readers . Others which I have retained , though they often relate to local names and books , more or less unfamiliar to the general public , yet seemed ...
... side of the Journal , already so full - to overweight it , at any rate , for English readers . Others which I have retained , though they often relate to local names and books , more or less unfamiliar to the general public , yet seemed ...
Page xix
... side of the intellectual life , has become difficult and painful to him , and he has developed what he himself calls ' a wavering manner , born of doubt and scruple . ' 6 How few could have foreseen the failure in public and practical ...
... side of the intellectual life , has become difficult and painful to him , and he has developed what he himself calls ' a wavering manner , born of doubt and scruple . ' 6 How few could have foreseen the failure in public and practical ...
Page xx
... side , and as M. Scherer points out , he could accept a non - political post at the hands of the new govern- ment , two years after the violent measures which had marked its accession , without breaking any pledges or sacrificing any ...
... side , and as M. Scherer points out , he could accept a non - political post at the hands of the new govern- ment , two years after the violent measures which had marked its accession , without breaking any pledges or sacrificing any ...
Page xxi
... side for what he had lost on the other , and he proudly resigned himself to an isolation and a reserve which , reinforcing , as they did , certain native weaknesses of character , had the most unfortunate effect upon his life . In a ...
... side for what he had lost on the other , and he proudly resigned himself to an isolation and a reserve which , reinforcing , as they did , certain native weaknesses of character , had the most unfortunate effect upon his life . In a ...
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... side of him , the accumulative , reflective faculties had grown out of all proportion to the rest of the personality . Nor had any special subject the power to fix him . Had he been in France , what Sainte - Beuve calls the French ...
... side of him , the accumulative , reflective faculties had grown out of all proportion to the rest of the personality . Nor had any special subject the power to fix him . Had he been in France , what Sainte - Beuve calls the French ...
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