Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri Frédéric Amiel, Volumes 1-2 |
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Page v
... French editors . It would be of no interest to give my reasons for these variations at length . They depend upon certain differences between the Eng- lish and the French public , which are more readily felt than explained . Some of the ...
... French editors . It would be of no interest to give my reasons for these variations at length . They depend upon certain differences between the Eng- lish and the French public , which are more readily felt than explained . Some of the ...
Page vi
... French readers to whom the original Journal primarily addresses itself , and some of the entries I have kept have probably , by the nature of things , more savour for us than for them . M. A. W. THE new and enlarged Index affixed to the ...
... French readers to whom the original Journal primarily addresses itself , and some of the entries I have kept have probably , by the nature of things , more savour for us than for them . M. A. W. THE new and enlarged Index affixed to the ...
Page ix
... French , while it may be sufficient to carry them with more or less complete understanding through a novel or a newspaper , is yet not enough to allow them to understand and appreciate a book containing subtle and complicated forms of ...
... French , while it may be sufficient to carry them with more or less complete understanding through a novel or a newspaper , is yet not enough to allow them to understand and appreciate a book containing subtle and complicated forms of ...
Page x
... French- man , but for which an English equivalent , at once terse and clear , is hard to find . Another difficulty has been his constant use of a technical philosophical language , which , according to his French critics , is not French ...
... French- man , but for which an English equivalent , at once terse and clear , is hard to find . Another difficulty has been his constant use of a technical philosophical language , which , according to his French critics , is not French ...
Page xi
... French Journal , as well as from certain materials in his possession which he has very kindly allowed me to make use of , I have drawn by far the greater part of the biographical material embodied in the In- troduction . M. Scherer has ...
... French Journal , as well as from certain materials in his possession which he has very kindly allowed me to make use of , I have drawn by far the greater part of the biographical material embodied in the In- troduction . M. Scherer has ...
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