Amiel's Journal, Volumes 1-2Macmillan, 1923 |
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Page x
... thought of the original was to be preserved ; but in those cases where a choice was open to me , I have preferred the more literary to the more technical expression ; and I have been encouraged to do so by the fact that Amiel , when he ...
... thought of the original was to be preserved ; but in those cases where a choice was open to me , I have preferred the more literary to the more technical expression ; and I have been encouraged to do so by the fact that Amiel , when he ...
Page xiv
... thoughts ; a means whereby the thinker became conscious of his own inner life ; a safe shelter wherein his ... thought or value as experience . The publication of this volume is the fulfil- ment of this desire . The reader will ...
... thoughts ; a means whereby the thinker became conscious of his own inner life ; a safe shelter wherein his ... thought or value as experience . The publication of this volume is the fulfil- ment of this desire . The reader will ...
Page xxi
... thought by the Journal Intime . ' I wish to convey to you , sir , ' writes the Rector of Lincoln , ' the thanks of one at least of the public for giving the light to this precious record of a unique experience . I say unique , but I can ...
... thought by the Journal Intime . ' I wish to convey to you , sir , ' writes the Rector of Lincoln , ' the thanks of one at least of the public for giving the light to this precious record of a unique experience . I say unique , but I can ...
Page xxiv
... thought and speculation , while the mixed nationality of the place the blending in it of French keenness with Protestant enthusiasms and Protestant solidity was beginning to find inimitable and characteristic expression in the stories ...
... thought and speculation , while the mixed nationality of the place the blending in it of French keenness with Protestant enthusiasms and Protestant solidity was beginning to find inimitable and characteristic expression in the stories ...
Page xxxii
... thought , to the development of such a nature . With his extraordinary power of ' throwing himself into the object ' — of effacing himself and his own personality in the presence of the thing to be understood and absorbed - he must have ...
... thought , to the development of such a nature . With his extraordinary power of ' throwing himself into the object ' — of effacing himself and his own personality in the presence of the thing to be understood and absorbed - he must have ...
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