his remarks on its character, i. 24;
  anecdotes of it, i. 22, 24;
  his leading error as to the education of the young, i. 25, 26;
  religious training, i. 25;
  apprenticeship, i. 26;
  boyish doings, i. 27;
  harshness of his master, i. 27;
  runs away, i. 29;
  received by the priest of Confignon, i. 31;
  sent to Madame de Warens, i. 84;
  at Turin, i. 35;
  hypocritical conversion to Roman Catholicism, i. 37;
  motive, i. 38;
  registry of his baptism, i. 38, n.;
  his forlorn condition, i. 39;
  love of music, i. 39;
  becomes servant to Madame de Vercellis, i. 39;
  his theft, lying, and excuses for it, i. 39, 40;
  becomes servant to Count of Gouvon, i. 42;
  dismissed, i. 43;
  returns to Madame de Warens, i. 45;
  his temperament, i. 46, 47;
  in training for the priesthood, but pronounced too stupid, i. 57;
  tries music, i. 57;
  shamelessly abandons his companion, i. 58;
  goes to Freiburg, Neuchatel, and Paris, i. 61, 62;
  conjectural chronology of his movements about this time. i. 62,
     n.;
  love of vagabond life, i. 62-68;
  effect upon him of his intercourse with the poor, i. 68;
  becomes clerk to a land surveyor at Chamberi, i. 69;
  life there, i. 69-72;
  ill-health and retirement to Les Charmettes, i. 73;
  his latest recollection of this time, i. 75-77;
  his “form of worship,” i. 77;
  love of nature, i. 77, 78;
  notion of deity, i. 77;
  peculiar intellectual feebleness, i. 81;
  criticism on himself, i. 83;
  want of logic in his mental constitution, i. 85;
  effect on him of Voltaire’s Letters on the English, i. 85;
  self-training, i. 86;
  mistaken method of it, i. 86, 87;
  writes a comedy, i. 89;
  enjoyment of rural life at Les Charmettes, i. 91, 92;
  robs Madame de Warens, i. 92;
  leaves her, i. 93;
  discrepancy between dates of his letters and the Confessions, i.
     93;
  takes a tutorship at Lyons, i. 95;
  condemns the practice of writing Latin, i. 96, n.;
  resigns his tutorship, and goes to Paris, i. 97;
  reception there, i. 98-100;
  appointed secretary to French Ambassador at Venice, i. 100-106;
  in quarantine at Genoa, i. 104;
  his estimate of French melody, i. 105;
  returns to Paris, i. 106;
  becomes acquainted with Theresa Le Vasseur, i. 106;
  his conduct criticised, i. 107-113;
  simple life, i. 113;
  letter to her, i. 115-119;
  his poverty, i. 119;
  becomes secretary to Madame Dupin and her son-in-law, M. de
     Francueil, i. 119;
  sends his children to the foundling hospital, i. 120, 121;
  paltry excuses for the crime, i. 121-126;
  his pretended marriage under the name of Renou, i. 129;
  his Discourses, i. 132-186 (see Discourses);
  writes essays for academy of Dijon, i. 132;
  origin of first essay, i. 133-137;