Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page lvii
... sense of spiritual reality bequeathed to us by the baffled and solitary thinker whose via dolorosa is before us . The manner in which this intellectual idiosyncrasy we have been describing gradu- ally affected Amiel's life supplies ...
... sense of spiritual reality bequeathed to us by the baffled and solitary thinker whose via dolorosa is before us . The manner in which this intellectual idiosyncrasy we have been describing gradu- ally affected Amiel's life supplies ...
Page lx
... sense of pleasure to his lectures . ' Many a student , however , has shrunk from the burden and risks of family life , and has found himself incapable or teach- ing effectively what he knows , and has yet redeemed all other incapacities ...
... sense of pleasure to his lectures . ' Many a student , however , has shrunk from the burden and risks of family life , and has found himself incapable or teach- ing effectively what he knows , and has yet redeemed all other incapacities ...
Page lxii
... sense Amiel's explanation of these 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 ...
... sense Amiel's explanation of these 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 ...
Page lxiii
... sense of peril overtakes him . The inner life , with its boundless horizons and its indescribable exaltations , seems endan- gered . Is he not about to place between himself and the forms of speculative truth some barrier of sense and ...
... sense of peril overtakes him . The inner life , with its boundless horizons and its indescribable exaltations , seems endan- gered . Is he not about to place between himself and the forms of speculative truth some barrier of sense and ...
Page lxiv
The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel Henri Frédéric Amiel. sense - of life and nature as a whole , is the critical - the tendency which , in the realm of action and concrete performance , carries him , as Amiel expresses it , droit ...
The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel Henri Frédéric Amiel. sense - of life and nature as a whole , is the critical - the tendency which , in the realm of action and concrete performance , carries him , as Amiel expresses it , droit ...
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