Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xxxviii
... German in French , ' and there are in his thought itself veins of mysticism , elements of Schwärmerei , here and there , of which a good deal must be laid to the account of his German training . M. Renan regrets that after Geneva and ...
... German in French , ' and there are in his thought itself veins of mysticism , elements of Schwärmerei , here and there , of which a good deal must be laid to the account of his German training . M. Renan regrets that after Geneva and ...
Page xlix
... German professor of Amiel's knowledge would have wanted nothing beyond his Fach , and nine men out of ten in his circumstances would have made themselves the slave of a magnum opus , and forgotten the vexations of every- day life in the ...
... German professor of Amiel's knowledge would have wanted nothing beyond his Fach , and nine men out of ten in his circumstances would have made themselves the slave of a magnum opus , and forgotten the vexations of every- day life in the ...
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... this intoxication of thought he seems to have been always specially liable , and his German experience - unbalanced , as such an experience generally is with a young man , by family life , or by any healthy 1 AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
... this intoxication of thought he seems to have been always specially liable , and his German experience - unbalanced , as such an experience generally is with a young man , by family life , or by any healthy 1 AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
Page li
... German synthesis , of that tradi- 6 tional , involuntary effort which the German mind makes INTRODUCTION . li.
... German synthesis , of that tradi- 6 tional , involuntary effort which the German mind makes INTRODUCTION . li.
Page lii
... German mind makes , generation after generation , to find the unity of experience , to range its accumulations from life and thought under a more and more perfect , a more and more exhaustive , formula . Not this study or that study ...
... German mind makes , generation after generation , to find the unity of experience , to range its accumulations from life and thought under a more and more perfect , a more and more exhaustive , formula . Not this study or that study ...
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