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Page xvi
... tion of the first volume of the Journal can hardly have had much expectation of a wide success . Geneva is not a favourable start- ing - point for a French book , and it may well have seemed that not even the support of M. Scherer's ...
... tion of the first volume of the Journal can hardly have had much expectation of a wide success . Geneva is not a favourable start- ing - point for a French book , and it may well have seemed that not even the support of M. Scherer's ...
Page xxix
... tion . The Renaissance is treated as a dis- astrous but inevitable crisis , in which the idealism of the Middle Ages was dethroned by the naturalism of modern times , ' The Renaissance perhaps robbed us of more than it gave us , ' and ...
... tion . The Renaissance is treated as a dis- astrous but inevitable crisis , in which the idealism of the Middle Ages was dethroned by the naturalism of modern times , ' The Renaissance perhaps robbed us of more than it gave us , ' and ...
Page xliii
... tion of 1846 , and the exclusion of the old Genevese families from the administration they had so long monopolised , a number of subsidiary changes were effected , not less im- portant to the ultimate success of Radicalism than the ...
... tion of 1846 , and the exclusion of the old Genevese families from the administration they had so long monopolised , a number of subsidiary changes were effected , not less im- portant to the ultimate success of Radicalism than the ...
Page xlvi
... tion . What is consideration ? ' he asks . ' How does a man obtain it ? how does it differ from fame , esteem , admiration ? ' And then he turns upon himself . ' It is curious , but the idea of consideration has been to me so little of ...
... tion . What is consideration ? ' he asks . ' How does a man obtain it ? how does it differ from fame , esteem , admiration ? ' And then he turns upon himself . ' It is curious , but the idea of consideration has been to me so little of ...
Page lxxx
... tion , but which is at present somewhat -overweighted in the Journal Intime : But whether biography or correspondence is ever forthcoming or not , the Journal remains and the Journal is the important matter . We shall read the Letters ...
... tion , but which is at present somewhat -overweighted in the Journal Intime : But whether biography or correspondence is ever forthcoming or not , the Journal remains and the Journal is the important matter . We shall read the Letters ...
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