Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri Frédéric Amiel, Volumes 1-2Macmillan, 1913 |
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Page xi
... whole process of translation - advice which his scholarly knowledge of English has made especially worth having . In the translation of the more technical philosophical passages I have been greatly helped by another friend , Mr. Bernard ...
... whole process of translation - advice which his scholarly knowledge of English has made especially worth having . In the translation of the more technical philosophical passages I have been greatly helped by another friend , Mr. Bernard ...
Page xxv
... whole , and of many of the cantons composing it . Geneva was still apparently tranquil while her neighbours were disturbed , but no one looking back on the history of the Republic , and able to measure the strength of the Radical force ...
... whole , and of many of the cantons composing it . Geneva was still apparently tranquil while her neighbours were disturbed , but no one looking back on the history of the Republic , and able to measure the strength of the Radical force ...
Page lii
... whole of things , the sum of Knowledge , the Infi- nite , the Absolute , alone had value or real- ity . In his own words : ' There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute ; for feeling except in the infinite ; for the soul ...
... whole of things , the sum of Knowledge , the Infi- nite , the Absolute , alone had value or real- ity . In his own words : ' There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute ; for feeling except in the infinite ; for the soul ...
Page lix
... whole , ' says M. Scherer , Amiel offered his hearers , not so much a series of positive teachings , as an index of subjects , a framework - what the Germans call a Schematismus . The skele- ton was admirably put together , and excel ...
... whole , ' says M. Scherer , Amiel offered his hearers , not so much a series of positive teachings , as an index of subjects , a framework - what the Germans call a Schematismus . The skele- ton was admirably put together , and excel ...
Page lxiii
... loss . 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.
... loss . 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.
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