Amiel's Journal, Volumes 1-2Macmillan, 1923 |
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Page xiv
... peace , might make themselves freely heard . In the directions concerning his papers which he left behind him , Amiel expressed the wish that his literary executors should publish those parts of the Journal which might seem to them to ...
... peace , might make themselves freely heard . In the directions concerning his papers which he left behind him , Amiel expressed the wish that his literary executors should publish those parts of the Journal which might seem to them to ...
Page xlvii
... peace in solitude , because my inmost conscience has not been any better satisfied than my heart . ' Still one may no doubt easily exaggerate this loneliness of Amiel's . His social diffi- culties represent rather a dull discomfort in ...
... peace in solitude , because my inmost conscience has not been any better satisfied than my heart . ' Still one may no doubt easily exaggerate this loneliness of Amiel's . His social diffi- culties represent rather a dull discomfort in ...
Page xcii
... peace , and the sense of painful defeat is lost in the sense of recovered liberty Tout est bien , mon Dieu m'enveloppe . ' เ 6 Nor is this all . It is not only that Amiel's inmost thought and affections are stayed on this conception of ...
... peace , and the sense of painful defeat is lost in the sense of recovered liberty Tout est bien , mon Dieu m'enveloppe . ' เ 6 Nor is this all . It is not only that Amiel's inmost thought and affections are stayed on this conception of ...
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... death . Only be at peace with self , live in the presence of God , in communion with Him , and leave the guidance of existence to those universal powers against whom thou canst do noth- . L ing ! If death gives me time , so I.
... death . Only be at peace with self , live in the presence of God , in communion with Him , and leave the guidance of existence to those universal powers against whom thou canst do noth- . L ing ! If death gives me time , so I.
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... peaceful fields , fine weather , contentment ; to have my two sisters with me ; to rest my eyes on balmy meadows and blossoming orchards ; to listen to the life singing in the grass and on the trees ; to be so calmly happy · is it not ...
... peaceful fields , fine weather , contentment ; to have my two sisters with me ; to rest my eyes on balmy meadows and blossoming orchards ; to listen to the life singing in the grass and on the trees ; to be so calmly happy · is it not ...
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