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Annecy austerity Chambéri character Charmettes circumstances condition Conf Confessions Corr D'Alembert d'Epinay's delight Diderot Discourse Discourse on Inequality doctrine dream duty egoism eighteenth century emotion Encyclopædia ESSAYS evil eyes father feeling France French Geneva Genevese Grimm happy heart honour human ideas imagination inequality influence intellectual Jean Jacques JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU kind less letter literary lived Madame d'Epinay Madame d'Houdetot Madame de Warens manners Manon Lescaut master Mém ment mind Molière moral Musset-Pathay nature ness never object Paris passed passion perhaps person piece pity pleasure Plutarch political principles reason religion Rous Rousseau Saint Lambert savage says sense sensuous sentiment side social Social Contract society soul spirit sweet taste temperament tender Theresa things thought tion tone true truth Turin turn Vasseur virtue Voltaire Voltaire's whole woman women word writing wrote youth
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Page 170 - THE first man who. having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
Page 181 - I have lived with communities of savages in South America and in the East, who have no laws or law courts but the public opinion of the village freely expressed. Each man scrupulously respects the rights of his fellow, and any infraction of those rights rarely or never takes place. In such a community, all are nearly equal.
Page 79 - I rose with the sun and I was happy ; I went to walk and I was happy ; I saw 'Maman' and I was happy ; I left her and I was happy. I rambled...
Page 137 - ... unspeakable agitation; I felt my head whirling in a giddiness like that of intoxication. A violent palpitation oppressed me; unable to walk for difficulty of breathing, I sank under one of the trees of the avenue, and passed half an hour there in such a condition of excitement that when I arose...
Page 80 - sometimes in the privacy of my study, with my hands pressed tight over my eyes or in the darkness of the night, I am of his opinion [that there is no God]. But look yonder (pointing with his hand to the sky, with head erect, and an inspired glance) : the rising of the sun, as it scatters the mists that cover the earth and lays bare the wondrous glittering scene of nature, disperses at the same moment all cloud from my soul I find my faith again, and my God, and 1 Cm/., vt 412.
Page 43 - Never,' he says in his account of this hateful action, ' was wickedness further from me than at this cruel moment ; and when I accused the poor girl, it is contradictory and yet it is true, that my affection for her was the cause of what I did. She was present to my mind, and I threw the blame from myself on to the first object that presented itself. When I saw her appear, my heart was torn, but the presence of so many people was too strong for my remorse. I feared punishment very little ; I only...
Page 182 - Now, although we have progressed vastly beyond the savage state in intellectual achievements, we have not advanced equally in morals.