Amiel's Journal, Volumes 1-2Macmillan, 1923 |
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Page xiv
... produced on him by books . But his Journal was , above all , the confidant of his most private and intimate thoughts ; a means whereby the thinker became conscious of his own inner life ; a safe shelter wherein his questionings of fate ...
... produced on him by books . But his Journal was , above all , the confidant of his most private and intimate thoughts ; a means whereby the thinker became conscious of his own inner life ; a safe shelter wherein his questionings of fate ...
Page xix
... Bourget , a young and rising writer , whose article is perhaps chiefly interesting as showing the kind of effect produced by Amiel's thought on minds of a type essen- tially alien from his own . There is a leaven INTRODUCTION . xix.
... Bourget , a young and rising writer , whose article is perhaps chiefly interesting as showing the kind of effect produced by Amiel's thought on minds of a type essen- tially alien from his own . There is a leaven INTRODUCTION . xix.
Page xxv
... produced the miniature Terror which forced Sismondi into exile , had been for a while laid to sleep by the events of 1814. But the slumber was a short one at Geneva as elsewhere , and when Rossi quitted the Republic for France in 1833 ...
... produced the miniature Terror which forced Sismondi into exile , had been for a while laid to sleep by the events of 1814. But the slumber was a short one at Geneva as elsewhere , and when Rossi quitted the Republic for France in 1833 ...
Page xxvii
... produced in Geneva by M. Pictet's Lectures on Esthetics in 1840 - the first ever deliv- ered in a town in which the Beautiful had been for centuries regarded as the rival and enemy of the True . ' He who is now writ- ing , ' says Amiel ...
... produced in Geneva by M. Pictet's Lectures on Esthetics in 1840 - the first ever deliv- ered in a town in which the Beautiful had been for centuries regarded as the rival and enemy of the True . ' He who is now writ- ing , ' says Amiel ...
Page xxxv
... produced all the ideas of our historical age , and during another half - century , perhaps another century , notre grande affaire sera de les repenser . ' He is inclined to compare the influence of German ideas on the mod- ern world to ...
... produced all the ideas of our historical age , and during another half - century , perhaps another century , notre grande affaire sera de les repenser . ' He is inclined to compare the influence of German ideas on the mod- ern world to ...
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