Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xxxv
... fact , is one more typical product of a move- ment which is certainly of enormous im- portance in the history of modern thought , even though we may not be prepared to assent to all the sweeping terms in which a writer like M. Taine ...
... fact , is one more typical product of a move- ment which is certainly of enormous im- portance in the history of modern thought , even though we may not be prepared to assent to all the sweeping terms in which a writer like M. Taine ...
Page xlix
... fact of Amiel's life in its relation to the outer world that ' sterility of genius , ' of which he was the victim . For social ostracism and political anxiety would have mattered to him comparatively little if he could but have lost ...
... fact of Amiel's life in its relation to the outer world that ' sterility of genius , ' of which he was the victim . For social ostracism and political anxiety would have mattered to him comparatively little if he could but have lost ...
Page lxi
... fact that at twenty he was a contributor to the best literary periodical which Geneva possessed . He was a charming correspondent , and in spite of his passion for abstract thought , his intellectual interest , at any rate , in all the ...
... fact that at twenty he was a contributor to the best literary periodical which Geneva possessed . He was a charming correspondent , and in spite of his passion for abstract thought , his intellectual interest , at any rate , in all the ...
Page lxii
... facts . In it he has made full and bitter confession of his weakness , his failure ; he has en- deavoured , with an acuteness of analysis no other hand can rival , to make the rea- sons of his failure and isolation clear both to himself ...
... facts . In it he has made full and bitter confession of his weakness , his failure ; he has en- deavoured , with an acuteness of analysis no other hand can rival , to make the rea- sons of his failure and isolation clear both to himself ...
Page lxix
... facts and impressions of a different kind from those which we have been dwelling on , which may serve to complete and cor- rect the picture we have so far drawn of the author of the Journal . For Amiel is full of contradictions and ...
... facts and impressions of a different kind from those which we have been dwelling on , which may serve to complete and cor- rect the picture we have so far drawn of the author of the Journal . For Amiel is full of contradictions and ...
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