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Page iii
... Journal primarily addresses itself , and some of the entries I have kept have probably , by the nature of things , more savour for us than for them . 445965 M. A. W. THE new and enlarged Index affixed to the present Edition 1921 ...
... Journal primarily addresses itself , and some of the entries I have kept have probably , by the nature of things , more savour for us than for them . 445965 M. A. W. THE new and enlarged Index affixed to the present Edition 1921 ...
Page xv
... thing to be understood and absorbed - he must have passed these years of travel and acquisition in a state of ... things , countries , peoples , books ; I have a greater mass of experiences . ' This fact , indeed , of a wide and ...
... thing to be understood and absorbed - he must have passed these years of travel and acquisition in a state of ... things , countries , peoples , books ; I have a greater mass of experiences . ' This fact , indeed , of a wide and ...
Page xvii
... things , their sense of mystery and immensity in the universe , he then brings those elements in him which belong to his French inheritance — and something individual besides , which is not French but Genevese - to bear on his new ...
... things , their sense of mystery and immensity in the universe , he then brings those elements in him which belong to his French inheritance — and something individual besides , which is not French but Genevese - to bear on his new ...
Page xviii
... things : ' What I desire is the sum of all desires , and what I seek to know is the sum of all different kinds of knowledge . Always the complete , the absolute , the teres atque rotundum ! And it was this antagonism , or rather this ...
... things : ' What I desire is the sum of all desires , and what I seek to know is the sum of all different kinds of knowledge . Always the complete , the absolute , the teres atque rotundum ! And it was this antagonism , or rather this ...
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... things were the offspring could have no real importance , no profitable message , for the world . The whole Journal Intime is in some sense Amiel's explanation of these facts . In it he has made full and bitter confession of his ...
... things were the offspring could have no real importance , no profitable message , for the world . The whole Journal Intime is in some sense Amiel's explanation of these facts . In it he has made full and bitter confession of his ...
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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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