Amiel's Journal, Volumes 1-2Macmillan, 1923 |
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Page xvii
... their in- capacity to praise , and praise at once , that ' the surest test of a man's critical power is his judgment of contemporaries . ' M. Re- nan , I think , with that exquisite literary sense INTRODUCTION . xvii.
... their in- capacity to praise , and praise at once , that ' the surest test of a man's critical power is his judgment of contemporaries . ' M. Re- nan , I think , with that exquisite literary sense INTRODUCTION . xvii.
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... critical appreciation of Amiel as the development of certain paradoxes which have been haunting various corners of M. Renan's mind for several years past , and to which it is to be hoped he has now given expression with sufficient ...
... critical appreciation of Amiel as the development of certain paradoxes which have been haunting various corners of M. Renan's mind for several years past , and to which it is to be hoped he has now given expression with sufficient ...
Page xxxiii
... critical esti- Imate of Amiel as a man or writer . may so easily conceive him as a sedentary professor , with the ordinary professorial knowledge , or rather ignorance , of men and the world , falling into introspection under the ...
... critical esti- Imate of Amiel as a man or writer . may so easily conceive him as a sedentary professor , with the ordinary professorial knowledge , or rather ignorance , of men and the world , falling into introspection under the ...
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... critical instinct , -'he came to his desk as to an altar . ' A friend who knew him well , ' says M. Scherer , ' remembers having heard him speak with deep emotion of that lofty serenity of mood which he had expe- rienced during his ...
... critical instinct , -'he came to his desk as to an altar . ' A friend who knew him well , ' says M. Scherer , ' remembers having heard him speak with deep emotion of that lofty serenity of mood which he had expe- rienced during his ...
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... critical sense of abnormal acute- ness , stood between him and everything healing and restoring . ' I am afraid of an imperfect , a faulty synthesis , and I linger in the provisional , from timidity and from loyalty . ' As soon as a ...
... critical sense of abnormal acute- ness , stood between him and everything healing and restoring . ' I am afraid of an imperfect , a faulty synthesis , and I linger in the provisional , from timidity and from loyalty . ' As soon as a ...
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