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Page xii
... strength of the Radical force in Europe after the fall of Charles X. , could have felt much doubt but that a few more years would bring Geneva also into the whirlpool of poli- tical change . In the same year - 1833 - that M. Rossi had ...
... strength of the Radical force in Europe after the fall of Charles X. , could have felt much doubt but that a few more years would bring Geneva also into the whirlpool of poli- tical change . In the same year - 1833 - that M. Rossi had ...
Page xxv
... strength year by year , until , like some strange misgrowth , it had absorbed the whole energies and drained the innermost life - blood of the personality which had developed it . And the result is another soul's tragedy , another story ...
... strength year by year , until , like some strange misgrowth , it had absorbed the whole energies and drained the innermost life - blood of the personality which had developed it . And the result is another soul's tragedy , another story ...
Page xxxi
... strength ! It will be useful to nobody , and even for myself — it has rather helped me to shirk life than to practise it . ' And again : Is everything I have produced , taken together - my correspondence , these thousands of Journal ...
... strength ! It will be useful to nobody , and even for myself — it has rather helped me to shirk life than to practise it . ' And again : Is everything I have produced , taken together - my correspondence , these thousands of Journal ...
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... strength and delicacy ; so full of sly intention for all its coldness , expressing at once in- quisitiveness and indifference , abrupt , piecemeal , like notes thrown together haphazard , and yet deliberate . I seem to see an intel ...
... strength and delicacy ; so full of sly intention for all its coldness , expressing at once in- quisitiveness and indifference , abrupt , piecemeal , like notes thrown together haphazard , and yet deliberate . I seem to see an intel ...
Page 8
... strength , thy studies , thy talent , and thy works . Now and here is the hour of great hearts , the hour of heroism and of genius . ' 6th April 1851. — Was there ever any one so vulnerable as I ? If I were a father how many griefs and ...
... strength , thy studies , thy talent , and thy works . Now and here is the hour of great hearts , the hour of heroism and of genius . ' 6th April 1851. — Was there ever any one so vulnerable as I ? If I were a father how many griefs and ...
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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 |
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