Amiel's Journal, Volumes 1-2Macmillan, 1923 |
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Page lvii
... suffering is almost forgotten ; all that we can realise is the enrichment of human feeling , the quick- ened sense of spiritual reality bequeathed to us by the baffled and solitary thinker whose via dolorosa is before us . - The manner ...
... suffering is almost forgotten ; all that we can realise is the enrichment of human feeling , the quick- ened sense of spiritual reality bequeathed to us by the baffled and solitary thinker whose via dolorosa is before us . - The manner ...
Page lxvii
... suffer- ing by a sympathy which would have been a mixture of pity and admiration . ' Was it that all the while Amiel felt him- self sure of his revanche ? that he knew the value of all those sheets of Journal which were slowly ...
... suffer- ing by a sympathy which would have been a mixture of pity and admiration . ' Was it that all the while Amiel felt him- self sure of his revanche ? that he knew the value of all those sheets of Journal which were slowly ...
Page xcii
... suffering , and supports him through his last hours . He writes a few months before the end : The animal expires ; man sur- renders his soul to the author of the soul . ' . . . We dream alone , we suffer alone , we die alone , we ...
... suffering , and supports him through his last hours . He writes a few months before the end : The animal expires ; man sur- renders his soul to the author of the soul . ' . . . We dream alone , we suffer alone , we die alone , we ...
Page xcvi
... suffering , rich in knowl- edge , and yet rich in faith , grasp in new forms , and proclaim to us in new words , ' The mighty hopes which make us men . ' AMIEL'S JOURNAL . VOL . I. [ Where no other xcvi AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
... suffering , rich in knowl- edge , and yet rich in faith , grasp in new forms , and proclaim to us in new words , ' The mighty hopes which make us men . ' AMIEL'S JOURNAL . VOL . I. [ Where no other xcvi AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
Page 4
... of the Son of man ; and if God could suffer , it would be the wound we should be for ever inflicting upon Him . He also He above all is the great misun- derstood , the least comprehended . Alas ! alas ! 4 AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
... of the Son of man ; and if God could suffer , it would be the wound we should be for ever inflicting upon Him . He also He above all is the great misun- derstood , the least comprehended . Alas ! alas ! 4 AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
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