Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri Frédéric Amiel, Volumes 1-2 |
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Page xiii
... able Introduction from the pen of M. Ed- mond Scherer , the well - known French critic , who had been for many years one of Amiel's most valued friends , and it was prefaced also by a little Avertissement , in which the ' Editors ...
... able Introduction from the pen of M. Ed- mond Scherer , the well - known French critic , who had been for many years one of Amiel's most valued friends , and it was prefaced also by a little Avertissement , in which the ' Editors ...
Page xviii
... able criticisms , to which we shall find occa- sion to recur . 6 In these two volumes of pensées , ' said M. Renan , without any sac- rifice of truth to artistic effect , we have both the perfect mirror of a modern mind of the best type ...
... able criticisms , to which we shall find occa- sion to recur . 6 In these two volumes of pensées , ' said M. Renan , without any sac- rifice of truth to artistic effect , we have both the perfect mirror of a modern mind of the best type ...
Page xxv
... disturbed , but no one looking back on the history of the Republic , and able to measure the strength of the Radical force in Europe after the fall of Charles X. , could have felt much doubt but that a few more years INTRODUCTION . XXV.
... disturbed , but no one looking back on the history of the Republic , and able to measure the strength of the Radical force in Europe after the fall of Charles X. , could have felt much doubt but that a few more years INTRODUCTION . XXV.
Page xxvii
... able , while review- ing one of M. Pictet's books , to give grate- ful expression to his sense of obligation . 6 Writing in 1856 he describes the effect produced in Geneva by M. Pictet's Lectures on Esthetics in 1840 - the first ever ...
... able , while review- ing one of M. Pictet's books , to give grate- ful expression to his sense of obligation . 6 Writing in 1856 he describes the effect produced in Geneva by M. Pictet's Lectures on Esthetics in 1840 - the first ever ...
Page lxvii
... able to understand my friend better , and to soothe his 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 ...
... able to understand my friend better , and to soothe his 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 ...
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