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).
  early relations with Voltaire, i. 308;
  letter to him on his poem on the earthquake at Lisbon, i. 312,
     313, 314;
  reasons in a circle, i. 316;
  continuation of argument against Voltaire, i. 316, 317;
  curious notion about religion, i. 317;
  quarrels with Voltaire, i. 318, 319;
  denounces him as a “trumpet of impiety,” i. 320, n.;
  letter to D’Alembert on Stage Plays, i. 321;
  true answer to his theory, i. 323, 324;
  contrasts Paris and Geneva, i. 327, 328;
  his patriotism, i. 329, 330, 331;
  censure of love as a poetic theme, i. 334, 335;
  on Social Position of Women, i. 335;
  Voltaire and D’Alembert’s criticism on his Letter on Stage Plays,
     i. 336, 337;
  final break with Diderot, i. 336;
  antecedents of his highest creative efforts, ii. 1;
  friends at Montmorency, ii. 2;
  reads the New Heloisa to the Marechale de Luxembourg, ii. 2;
  unwillingness to receive gifts, ii. 5;
  his relations with the Duke and Duchess de Luxembourg, ii. 7;
  misunderstands the friendliness of Madame de Boufflers, ii. 7;
  calm life at Montmorency, ii. 8;
  literary jealousy, ii. 8;
  last of his peaceful days, ii. 9;
  advice to a young man against the contemplative life, ii. 10;
  offensive form of his “good sense” concerning persecution of
     Protestants, ii. 11, 12;
  cause of his unwillingness to receive gifts, ii. 13, 14;
  owns his ungrateful nature, ii. 15;
  ill-humoured banter, ii. 15;
  his constant bodily suffering, ii. 16;
  thinks of suicide, ii. 16;
  correspondence with the readers of the New Heloisa, ii. 19, 20;
  the New Heloisa, criticism on, ii. 20-55 (see New Heloisa);
  his publishing difficulties, ii. 56;
  no taste for martyrdom, ii. 59, 60;
  curious discussion between, ii. 59;
  and Malesherbes, ii. 60;
  indebted to Malesherbes in the publication of Emilius, ii. 61, 62;
  suspects Jesuits, Jansenists, and philosophers of plotting to
     crush the book, ii. 63;
  himself counted among the latter, ii. 65;
  Emilius ordered to be burnt by public executioner, on the charge
     of irreligious tendency, and its author to be arrested, ii. 65;
  his flight, ii. 67;
  literary composition on the journey to Switzerland, ii. 69;
  contrast between him and Voltaire, ii. 70;
  explanation of his “natural ingratitude,” ii. 71;
  reaches the canton of Berne, and ordered to quit it, ii. 72;
  Emilius and Social Contract condemned to be publicly burnt at
     Geneva, and author arrested if he came there, ii. 72, 73;
  takes refuge at Motiers, in dominions of Frederick of Prussia, ii.
     73;
  characteristic letters to the king, ii. 74, 77;
  declines pecuniary help from him, ii. 75;
  his home and habits at Motiers, ii. 77, 78;
  Voltaire supposed to have stirred up animosity against him at
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