Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri Frédéric Amiel, Volumes 1-2Macmillan, 1913 |
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Page xii
... things — he had been in reality working out the mission assigned him in the spiritual economy , and faithfully obeying the secret mandate which had im- pressed itself upon his youthful conscious- ness : - Let the living live ; and you ...
... things — he had been in reality working out the mission assigned him in the spiritual economy , and faithfully obeying the secret mandate which had im- pressed itself upon his youthful conscious- ness : - Let the living live ; and you ...
Page xxxii
... thing to be understood and absorbed must have passed these years of travel and acquisition in a state of continuous ... things , countries , peoples , books ; I have a greater mass of experiences . ' This fact , indeed , he We of a wide ...
... thing to be understood and absorbed must have passed these years of travel and acquisition in a state of continuous ... things , countries , peoples , books ; I have a greater mass of experiences . ' This fact , indeed , he We of a wide ...
Page xl
... things , -have passed before me and in me since April 1843 , ' he writes in the Jour- nal , two or three months after his return . ' The last seven years have been the most important of my life ; they have been the novitiate of my ...
... things , -have passed before me and in me since April 1843 , ' he writes in the Jour- nal , two or three months after his return . ' The last seven years have been the most important of my life ; they have been the novitiate of my ...
Page lxiii
... things and aims . The joy of becoming once more con- scious of myself , of listening to the passage of time and the flow of the universal life , is sometimes enough to make me forget every desire and to quench in me both the wish to ...
... things and aims . The joy of becoming once more con- scious of myself , of listening to the passage of time and the flow of the universal life , is sometimes enough to make me forget every desire and to quench in me both the wish to ...
Page xci
... things , and the soul's inward law , as it has been painfully elabo- rated by human history , the only revelation of God . 7 -- The only but the sufficient revelation ! For this first article of a reasonable creed is the key to all else ...
... things , and the soul's inward law , as it has been painfully elabo- rated by human history , the only revelation of God . 7 -- The only but the sufficient revelation ! For this first article of a reasonable creed is the key to all else ...
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