Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xiii
... French critic , who had been for many years one of Amiel's most valued friends , and it was prefaced also by a little Avertissement , in which the ' Editors ' . - that is to say , the Genevese friends to whom the care and publication of ...
... French critic , who had been for many years one of Amiel's most valued friends , and it was prefaced also by a little Avertissement , in which the ' Editors ' . - that is to say , the Genevese friends to whom the care and publication of ...
Page xvi
... French book , and it may well have seemed that not even the support of M. Scherer's name would be likely to carry the volume beyond a small local circle . But ' wisdom is justified of her children ! ' It is now nearly three years since ...
... French book , and it may well have seemed that not even the support of M. Scherer's name would be likely to carry the volume beyond a small local circle . But ' wisdom is justified of her children ! ' It is now nearly three years since ...
Page xxiii
... French Republic , and would seem to have married and settled in the halcyon days following the restoration of Genevese independence in 1814. Amiel was born when the prosperity of Geneva was at its height , when the little State was ad ...
... French Republic , and would seem to have married and settled in the halcyon days following the restoration of Genevese independence in 1814. Amiel was born when the prosperity of Geneva was at its height , when the little State was ad ...
Page xxiv
... French keenness with Protestant enthusiasms and Protestant solidity - - was beginning to find inimitable and characteristic expression in the stories of Töpffer . The country was governed by an aristocracy , which was not so much an ...
... French keenness with Protestant enthusiasms and Protestant solidity - - was beginning to find inimitable and characteristic expression in the stories of Töpffer . The country was governed by an aristocracy , which was not so much an ...
Page xxv
... French States General , and had afterwards produced the miniature Terror which forced Sismondi into exile , had been for a while laid to sleep by the events of 1814. But the slumber was а short one at Geneva as elsewhere , and when ...
... French States General , and had afterwards produced the miniature Terror which forced Sismondi into exile , had been for a while laid to sleep by the events of 1814. But the slumber was а short one at Geneva as elsewhere , and when ...
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