Amiel's Journal, Volumes 1-2Macmillan, 1923 |
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Page xvii
... true now as it was in the days when La Bruyère rated the critics of his time for 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 ...
... true now as it was in the days when La Bruyère rated the critics of his time for 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 ...
Page xxvii
... True . ' He who is now writ- ing , ' says Amiel , was then among M. Pic- tet's youngest hearers . Since then twenty experiences of the same kind have followed each other in his intellectual experience , yet none has effaced the deep ...
... True . ' He who is now writ- ing , ' says Amiel , was then among M. Pic- tet's youngest hearers . Since then twenty experiences of the same kind have followed each other in his intellectual experience , yet none has effaced the deep ...
Page xxix
... true progress and true civilisa- tion . ' The Renaissance is treated as a dis- astrous but inevitable crisis , in which the idealism of the Middle Ages was dethroned by the naturalism of modern times , - ' The Renaissance perhaps robbed ...
... true progress and true civilisa- tion . ' The Renaissance is treated as a dis- astrous but inevitable crisis , in which the idealism of the Middle Ages was dethroned by the naturalism of modern times , - ' The Renaissance perhaps robbed ...
Page xxx
... True , there still re- mains the enormous , the insuperable diffi- culty of expression , of fit and adequate communication from mind to mind ; there still remains the question whether , after all , ' he who discovers a new world in the ...
... True , there still re- mains the enormous , the insuperable diffi- culty of expression , of fit and adequate communication from mind to mind ; there still remains the question whether , after all , ' he who discovers a new world in the ...
Page xxxviii
... true . Amiel is no doubt often guilty , as M. Caro puts it , of attempts to write German in French , ' and there are in his thought itself veins of mysticism , elements of Schwärmerei , here and there , of which a good deal must be laid ...
... true . Amiel is no doubt often guilty , as M. Caro puts it , of attempts to write German in French , ' and there are in his thought itself veins of mysticism , elements of Schwärmerei , here and there , of which a good deal must be laid ...
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