Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page lxxvii
... reality , is here expressed in more reserved and measured form . Faith , doubt , submission , tenderness of feeling , infinite aspiration , moral passion , that straining hope of something beyond , which is the life of the religious ...
... reality , is here expressed in more reserved and measured form . Faith , doubt , submission , tenderness of feeling , infinite aspiration , moral passion , that straining hope of something beyond , which is the life of the religious ...
Page lxxxviii
... realities . He asks me " What does M. Renan make of sin ? " Eh bien , je crois que je le supprime . ' But it is just because Amiel is profoundly sen- sitive to the problems of evil and responsi- bility , and M. Renan dismisses them with ...
... realities . He asks me " What does M. Renan make of sin ? " Eh bien , je crois que je le supprime . ' But it is just because Amiel is profoundly sen- sitive to the problems of evil and responsi- bility , and M. Renan dismisses them with ...
Page lxxxix
... realities , the form and the letter may vanish away the question of human- ity remains : What is it which saves ? ' Amiel's answer to the question will recall to a wide English circle the method and spirit of an English teacher , whose ...
... realities , the form and the letter may vanish away the question of human- ity remains : What is it which saves ? ' Amiel's answer to the question will recall to a wide English circle the method and spirit of an English teacher , whose ...
Page xc
... reality of the moral law is what he clings to when his inherited creed has yielded to the pressure of the intellect , and after all the storms of pessimism and necessitarianism have passed over him . The reconciliation of the two ...
... reality of the moral law is what he clings to when his inherited creed has yielded to the pressure of the intellect , and after all the storms of pessimism and necessitarianism have passed over him . The reconciliation of the two ...
Page xci
... reality of love and duty to the belief in ' a holy will at the root of nature and destiny ' -for if man is capable of conceiving goodness , the general principle of things , which cannot be inferior to man , must be good . ' And then ...
... reality of love and duty to the belief in ' a holy will at the root of nature and destiny ' -for if man is capable of conceiving goodness , the general principle of things , which cannot be inferior to man , must be good . ' And then ...
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