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Page xxxi
... sense ; but there is something else too- there is a breath of that same speculative passion which burns in the Journal , and one hears , as it were , the first accents of a melancholy , the first expression of a mood of mind , which ...
... sense ; but there is something else too- there is a breath of that same speculative passion which burns in the Journal , and one hears , as it were , the first accents of a melancholy , the first expression of a mood of mind , which ...
Page xxxvi
... sense- than from German literature . But he raises no question as to the inevitable subjection of the French to the German mind in matters of exact thought and knowledge . ' To study philology , mythology , history , with- out reading ...
... sense- than from German literature . But he raises no question as to the inevitable subjection of the French to the German mind in matters of exact thought and knowledge . ' To study philology , mythology , history , with- out reading ...
Page xxxvii
... sense of mystery and immensity in the universe , he then brings those elements in him which belong to his French inheritance - and something individual besides , which is not French but Genevese - to bear on his new acquisitions , and ...
... sense of mystery and immensity in the universe , he then brings those elements in him which belong to his French inheritance - and something individual besides , which is not French but Genevese - to bear on his new acquisitions , and ...
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... sense of curiosity or cold critical instinct , he came to his desk as to an altar . ' A friend who knew him well , ' says M. Scherer , ' remembers having heard him speak with deep emotion of that lofty serenity of mood which he had expe ...
... sense of curiosity or cold critical instinct , he came to his desk as to an altar . ' A friend who knew him well , ' says M. Scherer , ' remembers having heard him speak with deep emotion of that lofty serenity of mood which he had expe ...
Page liii
... sense of intellectual responsibility , and far from the sounds of human life , the stranger and the weirder grew the hallucinations of thought . The Journal gives marvellous expression to them : I can find no words for what I feel . My ...
... sense of intellectual responsibility , and far from the sounds of human life , the stranger and the weirder grew the hallucinations of thought . The Journal gives marvellous expression to them : I can find no words for what I feel . My ...
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