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Page lxviii
... leaves ? To whom and to what have I been useful ? Will my name survive me a single day , and will it ever mean anything to anybody ? A life of no account ! When all is added up - nothing ! ' In passages like these there is no ...
... leaves ? To whom and to what have I been useful ? Will my name survive me a single day , and will it ever mean anything to anybody ? A life of no account ! When all is added up - nothing ! ' In passages like these there is no ...
Page lxxxiv
... leaves the region of romantic description how wearisome the pages are apt to grow ! Instead of a poet , ' un ergo- teur Voltairien ; ' instead of the explorer of fresh secrets of the heart , a . Parisian talking a cheap cynicism ...
... leaves the region of romantic description how wearisome the pages are apt to grow ! Instead of a poet , ' un ergo- teur Voltairien ; ' instead of the explorer of fresh secrets of the heart , a . Parisian talking a cheap cynicism ...
Page xciii
... leaves an indelible impression on the nature which has once surrendered itself to the austere and penetrating influences flowing from the religion of sin and grace ; and so far as feeling and temperament are con- cerned , Amiel retained ...
... leaves an indelible impression on the nature which has once surrendered itself to the austere and penetrating influences flowing from the religion of sin and grace ; and so far as feeling and temperament are con- cerned , Amiel retained ...
Page 13
... leaves upon the reader rather the im- pression of a great wealth of small curiosi- ties of value , than of a great intellectual . existence and a new point of view . The place of Joubert seems to me then , below and very far from the ...
... leaves upon the reader rather the im- pression of a great wealth of small curiosi- ties of value , than of a great intellectual . existence and a new point of view . The place of Joubert seems to me then , below and very far from the ...
Page 14
... leaves . Taken as a whole , there is something impalpable and immaterial about him , which I will not venture to call effem- inate , but which is scarcely manly . He wants bone and body : timid , dreamy , and clairvoyant , he hovers far ...
... leaves . Taken as a whole , there is something impalpable and immaterial about him , which I will not venture to call effem- inate , but which is scarcely manly . He wants bone and body : timid , dreamy , and clairvoyant , he hovers far ...
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