The Autobiography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life. Together with his Annals: or, Day and year papers. Tr. from the German, Volume 2G. Bell and sons, 1900 - 518 pages |
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... favour of an acquired morality . To Lavater the hardness , the obduracy of such antagonists was horrible , and his opposition was not free from passion ; just as the smelting fire must attack the resisting ore as something troublesome ...
... favour of an acquired morality . To Lavater the hardness , the obduracy of such antagonists was horrible , and his opposition was not free from passion ; just as the smelting fire must attack the resisting ore as something troublesome ...
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... favour of both , though without being able to gain the assent of my friends . In Faith , I said , everything depends on the fact of believing ; what is believed is perfectly indifferent . Faith is a profound sense of security for the ...
... favour of both , though without being able to gain the assent of my friends . In Faith , I said , everything depends on the fact of believing ; what is believed is perfectly indifferent . Faith is a profound sense of security for the ...
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... , studied the doctrine and fate of Pelagius more closely , and now saw clearly how these two irreconcilable opinions had 十 fluctuated in favour through whole centuries , and had been 84 TRUTH AND POETRY ; FROM MY OWN LIFE .
... , studied the doctrine and fate of Pelagius more closely , and now saw clearly how these two irreconcilable opinions had 十 fluctuated in favour through whole centuries , and had been 84 TRUTH AND POETRY ; FROM MY OWN LIFE .
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... favour through whole centuries , and had been embraced and acknowledged by different men , according as they were of a more active or of a more passive nature . The course of past years had constantly led me more and more to the ...
... favour through whole centuries , and had been embraced and acknowledged by different men , according as they were of a more active or of a more passive nature . The course of past years had constantly led me more and more to the ...
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... favoured nor hindered by any external mat- ters . I easily in thought built my whole existence upon it . This conception soon assumed a distinct form ; the old mytho- logical image of Prometheus occurred to me , who , separated from the ...
... favoured nor hindered by any external mat- ters . I easily in thought built my whole existence upon it . This conception soon assumed a distinct form ; the old mytho- logical image of Prometheus occurred to me , who , separated from the ...
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