Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page lxxii
... nature to be generally appreciated at its true value ; the motives which governed his life were too remote from the ordinary motives of human conduct , and his characteristics just those which have always excited the distrust , if not ...
... nature to be generally appreciated at its true value ; the motives which governed his life were too remote from the ordinary motives of human conduct , and his characteristics just those which have always excited the distrust , if not ...
Page lxxxv
... nature , the earth - passion which breathes in his letters and journal , has a strange savour , a force and flame which is all his own . Beside his actual sense of community with the visible world , Amiel's love of land- scape has a ...
... nature , the earth - passion which breathes in his letters and journal , has a strange savour , a force and flame which is all his own . Beside his actual sense of community with the visible world , Amiel's love of land- scape has a ...
Page lxxxvii
... nature of things . ' And , although a certain fatal spiritual weakness debarred him to a great extent from the world ... natural expression in literary or family life , pent up within the mind itself , excited in it a perpetual eagerness ...
... nature of things . ' And , although a certain fatal spiritual weakness debarred him to a great extent from the world ... natural expression in literary or family life , pent up within the mind itself , excited in it a perpetual eagerness ...
Page xc
... nature and consciousness , is practically the same . In Amiel's case , we have to gather it through all the variations and inevitable contradictions of a Journal which is the reflection of a life , not the systematic ex- pression of a ...
... nature and consciousness , is practically the same . In Amiel's case , we have to gather it through all the variations and inevitable contradictions of a Journal which is the reflection of a life , not the systematic ex- pression of a ...
Page xci
... Nature is the virtuality of mind , the soul the fruit of life , and liberty the flower of necessity . ' Consciousness is the one fixed point in this boundless and . bottomless gulf of things , and the soul's inward law , as it has been ...
... Nature is the virtuality of mind , the soul the fruit of life , and liberty the flower of necessity . ' Consciousness is the one fixed point in this boundless and . bottomless gulf of things , and the soul's inward law , as it has been ...
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