Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 654 pages of information about Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2).

Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 654 pages of information about Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2).

French Convention, story of member of the, ii. 134, n.

GALUPPI, effect of his music, i. 105.

Geneva, i. 8;
  characteristics of its people, i. 9;
  Rousseau’s visit to, i. 93;
  influence of, on Rousseau, i. 94;
  he revisits it in 1754, i. 186-190, 218;
  turns Protestant again there, i. 220;
  religious opinion in, i. 223 (also i. 224, n.);
  Rousseau thinks of taking up his abode in, i. 228;
  Voltaire at, i. 308;
  D’Alembert’s article on, in Encyclopaedia, i. 321;
  Rousseau’s notions of effect of
  introducing the drama at, i. 327;
  council of, order public burning of Emilius and the Social
     Contract, and arrest of the author if he came there, ii. 72;
  the only place where the Social Contract was actually burnt, ii. 73,
     n.;
  Voltaire suspected to have had a hand in the matter, ii. 81;
  council of, divided into two camps by Rousseau’s condemnation, in
     1762, ii. 102;
  Rousseau renounces his citizenship in, ii. 104;
  working of the republic, ii. 104.

Genevese, Bishop Burnet on, i. 225;
  Rousseau’s distrust of, i. 228;
  his panegyric on, i. 328;
  manners of, according to Rousseau, i. 330;
  their complaint of it, i. 331.

Genlis, Madame de, ii. 323.

Genoa, Rousseau in quarantine at, i. 103;
  Corsica sold to France by, ii. 102.

Germany, sentimental movements in, ii. 33.

Gibbon, Edward, at Lausanne, ii. 96.

Girardin, St. Marc, on Rousseau, i. 111, n.;
  on Rousseau’s discussions, ii. 11, n.;
  offers Rousseau a home, ii. 326.

Gluck, i. 291, 296;
  Rousseau quarrels with, for setting his music to French words, ii.
     323.

Goethe, i. 20.

Goguet on Society, ii. 127, n.;
  on tacit conventions, ii. 148, n.;
  on law, ii. 153, n.

Goldoni, Diderot accused of pilfering his new play, i. 275.

Gothic architecture denounced by Voltaire and Turgot, i. 294.

Gouvon, Count, Rousseau servant to, i. 42.

Government, disquisitions on, ii. 131-206;
  remarks on, ii. 131-141;
  early democratic ideas of, ii. 144-148;
  Hobbes’ philosophy of, ii. 151;
  Rousseau’s science of, ii. 155, 156;
  De la Riviere’s science of, ii. 156, n.;
  federation recommended by Rousseau to the Poles, ii. 166;
  three forms of government defined, ii. 169;
  definition inadequate, ii. 169;
  Montesquieu’s definition, ii. 169;
  Rousseau’s distinction between tyrant and despot, ii.
     169, n.;
  his objection to democracy, ii. 172;
  to monarchy, ii. 173;
  consideration of aristocracy, ii. 174;
  his own scheme, ii. 175;
  Hobbes’s “Passive Obedience,” ii. 181, 182;
  social conscience theory, ii. 183-187;
  government made impossible by Rousseau’s doctrine of social
     contract, ii. 188-192;
  Burke on expediency in, ii. 192;
  what a civilised nation is, ii. 194;
  Jefferson on, ii. 227, 228, n.

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