Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page lxxxvi
... tion towards the visible universe which con- ditions it which is the real subject of the Journal Intime . There are few elements of our present life which , in a greater or less degree , are not made vocal in these pages . Amiel's ...
... tion towards the visible universe which con- ditions it which is the real subject of the Journal Intime . There are few elements of our present life which , in a greater or less degree , are not made vocal in these pages . Amiel's ...
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... tion ; it is what must have oftenest wrung the heart of the Son of man ; and if God could suffer , it would be the wound we should be for ever inflicting upon Him . He also He above all - is the great misun- derstood , the least ...
... tion ; it is what must have oftenest wrung the heart of the Son of man ; and if God could suffer , it would be the wound we should be for ever inflicting upon Him . He also He above all - is the great misun- derstood , the least ...
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... tion , is all the more difficult the more the mind analyses , discriminates , and foresees . It is difficult , indeed , for liberty to return to the frank unity of instinct . we Alas ! we must then re - climb a thousand times the peaks ...
... tion , is all the more difficult the more the mind analyses , discriminates , and foresees . It is difficult , indeed , for liberty to return to the frank unity of instinct . we Alas ! we must then re - climb a thousand times the peaks ...
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... tion rests upon feeling , instinct , and will . One finds them mistaking philosophic con- sciousness for realising power , the redemp- tion of the intelligence for the redemption of the heart that is to say , the part for the whole ...
... tion rests upon feeling , instinct , and will . One finds them mistaking philosophic con- sciousness for realising power , the redemp- tion of the intelligence for the redemption of the heart that is to say , the part for the whole ...
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... tion , holiness , heroism , enthusiasm , the extraordinary , the infinite , shall have a worship and an abiding city ? Utilitarian materialism , barren wellbeing , the idolatry of the flesh and of the ' I , ' of the temporal and of ...
... tion , holiness , heroism , enthusiasm , the extraordinary , the infinite , shall have a worship and an abiding city ? Utilitarian materialism , barren wellbeing , the idolatry of the flesh and of the ' I , ' of the temporal and of ...
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