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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... observation of himself and of his fellow - men . The former was facilitated , if not forced upon him , by an in- ternal sensitiveness ; the latter by a keen glance , which could quickly read the outward expression . Still , he was not ...
... observation of himself and of his fellow - men . The former was facilitated , if not forced upon him , by an in- ternal sensitiveness ; the latter by a keen glance , which could quickly read the outward expression . Still , he was not ...
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... observing the manner in which he treated men , -instructed , I say , not improved by it , for my position was wholly different from his . He that works morally loses none of his efforts , for there comes from them much more fruit than ...
... observing the manner in which he treated men , -instructed , I say , not improved by it , for my position was wholly different from his . He that works morally loses none of his efforts , for there comes from them much more fruit than ...
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... observe us at such moments have a better and clearer insight into what passes within us , than we ourselves . Religious conversations I had hitherto gently declined ; to plain questions , I had not unfrequently replied with harshness ...
... observe us at such moments have a better and clearer insight into what passes within us , than we ourselves . Religious conversations I had hitherto gently declined ; to plain questions , I had not unfrequently replied with harshness ...
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... observation could not long escape me that Lavater and Basedow employed intellectual and even spiritual means for earthly ends . It soon struck me , who spent my talents and my days on no object whatever , that these two men , while ...
... observation could not long escape me that Lavater and Basedow employed intellectual and even spiritual means for earthly ends . It soon struck me , who spent my talents and my days on no object whatever , that these two men , while ...
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... observation , however , I will not suppress , which is , that men whom Nature , after endowing them with uncom- mon advantages , has placed in a narrow circle of action , or at least in one disproportioned to their powers , generally ...
... observation , however , I will not suppress , which is , that men whom Nature , after endowing them with uncom- mon advantages , has placed in a narrow circle of action , or at least in one disproportioned to their powers , generally ...
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