Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri Frédéric Amiel, Volumes 1-2Macmillan, 1913 |
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Page xxx
... imaginative and the analytical fac- ulty work harmoniously and effectively together . And supposing the goal achieved , supposing a man by insight and patience has succeeded in forcing his way farther than any previous explorer into the ...
... imaginative and the analytical fac- ulty work harmoniously and effectively together . And supposing the goal achieved , supposing a man by insight and patience has succeeded in forcing his way farther than any previous explorer into the ...
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... imagination de détail ' would probably have attracted his pliant , responsive nature , and he would have found happy occupation in some one of the innumerable departments of research on which the French have been patiently spending ...
... imagination de détail ' would probably have attracted his pliant , responsive nature , and he would have found happy occupation in some one of the innumerable departments of research on which the French have been patiently spending ...
Page lvii
... imagination of the listener , that in the end we put down the record not so much with a throb of pity as with an impulse of grati- tude . The individual error and suffering is almost forgotten ; all that we can realise is the enrichment ...
... imagination of the listener , that in the end we put down the record not so much with a throb of pity as with an impulse of grati- tude . The individual error and suffering is almost forgotten ; all that we can realise is the enrichment ...
Page lviii
... imagination , conscience , and penetration , and not enough character . The life of thought alone seems to me to have enough elasticity and immensity , to be free enough from the irreparable ; practical life makes me afraid . I am ...
... imagination , conscience , and penetration , and not enough character . The life of thought alone seems to me to have enough elasticity and immensity , to be free enough from the irreparable ; practical life makes me afraid . I am ...
Page lxxxv
... of the present it tells us nothing for the future . - - No , there is much more in the Journal Intime than the imagination or the poetical glow which Amiel shares with his immedi- ate predecessors in INTRODUCTION . lxxxv.
... of the present it tells us nothing for the future . - - No , there is much more in the Journal Intime than the imagination or the poetical glow which Amiel shares with his immedi- ate predecessors in INTRODUCTION . lxxxv.
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