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Page vi
... whole process of translation - advice which his scholarly knowledge of English has made especially worth having . In the translation of the more technical philosophical passages I have been greatly helped by another friend , Mr. Bernard ...
... whole process of translation - advice which his scholarly knowledge of English has made especially worth having . In the translation of the more technical philosophical passages I have been greatly helped by another friend , Mr. Bernard ...
Page xix
... whole effect , indeed , was of something bril- liant and striking . In his young alertness Amiel seemed to be entering upon life as a conqueror ; one would have said the future was all his own , ' His return , moreover , was marked by a ...
... whole effect , indeed , was of something bril- liant and striking . In his young alertness Amiel seemed to be entering upon life as a conqueror ; one would have said the future was all his own , ' His return , moreover , was marked by a ...
Page xxi
... whole , it was almost impossible for Amiel to escape from his grievance and establish a sufficient barrier of friendly interests between himself and the society which ignored him . There can be no doubt that he suffered , both in mind ...
... whole , it was almost impossible for Amiel to escape from his grievance and establish a sufficient barrier of friendly interests between himself and the society which ignored him . There can be no doubt that he suffered , both in mind ...
Page xxiv
... whole of things , the sum of Knowledge , the Infinite , the Absolute , alone had value or reality . In his own words : ' There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute ; for feeling except in the infinite ; for the soul except ...
... whole of things , the sum of Knowledge , the Infinite , the Absolute , alone had value or reality . In his own words : ' There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute ; for feeling except in the infinite ; for the soul except ...
Page xxvii
... whole , ' says M. Scherer , Amiel offered his hearers , not so much a series of positive teachings , as an index of subjects , a framework - what the Germans call a Schematismus . The skeleton was admirably put together , and excellent ...
... whole , ' says M. Scherer , Amiel offered his hearers , not so much a series of positive teachings , as an index of subjects , a framework - what the Germans call a Schematismus . The skeleton was admirably put together , and excellent ...
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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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