Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri Frédéric Amiel, Volumes 1-2Macmillan, 1913 |
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Page xxii
... nature , to the cry of anguish which makes itself heard in the pages of these remarkable confessions . ' So much for ... natural con- sequence of the success of the book that the more it penetrates , the greater desire there is to know ...
... nature , to the cry of anguish which makes itself heard in the pages of these remarkable confessions . ' So much for ... natural con- sequence of the success of the book that the more it penetrates , the greater desire there is to know ...
Page xxxii
... nature . With his extraordinary power of ' throwing himself into the object ' - of effacing himself and his own personality in the presence of the thing to be understood and absorbed must have passed these years of travel and ...
... nature . With his extraordinary power of ' throwing himself into the object ' - of effacing himself and his own personality in the presence of the thing to be understood and absorbed must have passed these years of travel and ...
Page lvi
... nature , and warns us , as the letters of Obermann in their day warned the gen- eration of George Sand , that with the rise of new intellectual perceptions new spiritual dangers come into being , and that across the path of continuous ...
... nature , and warns us , as the letters of Obermann in their day warned the gen- eration of George Sand , that with the rise of new intellectual perceptions new spiritual dangers come into being , and that across the path of continuous ...
Page lxiii
... To the old paths , my soul ! ' And in close combination with the specu- lative sense , with the tendency which car- ries a man toward the contemplative study sense - 6 of life and nature as a whole INTRODUCTION . Ixiii.
... To the old paths , my soul ! ' And in close combination with the specu- lative sense , with the tendency which car- ries a man toward the contemplative study sense - 6 of life and nature as a whole INTRODUCTION . Ixiii.
Page lxiv
... nature as a whole , is the critical -the tendency which , in the realm of action and concrete performance , carries ... natural consequences timidity of soul , paralysis of the will , complete self - dis- trust . To know is enough for me ...
... nature as a whole , is the critical -the tendency which , in the realm of action and concrete performance , carries ... natural consequences timidity of soul , paralysis of the will , complete self - dis- trust . To know is enough for me ...
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