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).
     Geneva, ii. 81;
  Archbishop of Paris writes against him, ii. 83;
  his reply, and character as a controversialist, ii. 83-90;
  life at Val de Travers (Motiers), ii. 91-95;
  his generosity, ii. 93;
  corresponds with the Prince of Wuertemberg on the education of the
     prince’s daughter, ii. 95, 96;
  on Gibbon, ii. 96;
  visit from Boswell, ii. 98;
  invited to legislate for Corsica, ii. 99, n.;
  urges Boswell to go there, ii. 100;
  denounces its sale by the Genoese, ii. 102;
  renounces his citizenship of Geneva, ii. 103;
  his Letters from the Mountain, ii. 104;
  the letters condemned to be burned at Paris and the Hague, ii.
     105;
  libel upon, ii. 105;
  religious difficulties with his pastor, ii. 106;
  ill-treatment of, in parish, ii. 106;
  obliged to leave it, ii. 108;
  his next retreat, ii. 108;
  account in the Reveries of his short stay there, ii. 109-115;
  expelled by government of Berne, ii. 116;
  makes an extraordinary request to it, ii. 116, 117;
  difficulties in finding a home, ii. 117;
  short stay at Strasburg, ii. 117, n.;
  decides on going to England, ii. 118;
  his Social Contract, and criticism on, ii. 119, 196 (see Social
     Contract);
  scanty acquaintance with history, ii. 129;
  its effects on his political writings, ii. 129, 136;
  his object in writing Emilius, ii. 198;
  his confession of faith, under the character of the Savoyard Vicar
     (see Emilius), ii. 257-280;
  excitement caused by his appearance in Paris in 1765, ii. 282;
  leaves for England in company with Hume, ii. 283;
  reception in London, ii. 283, 284;
  George III. gives him a pension, ii. 284;
  his love for his dog, ii. 286;
  finds a home at Wootton, ii. 286;
  quarrels with Hume, ii. 287;
  particulars in connection with it, ii. 287-296;
  his approaching insanity at this period, ii. 296;
  the preparatory conditions of it, ii. 297-301;
  begins writing the Confessions, ii. 301;
  their character, ii. 301-304;
  life at Wootton, ii. 305, 306;
  sudden flight thence, ii. 306;
  kindness of Mr. Davenport, ii. 306, 307;
  his delusion, ii. 307;
  returns to France, ii. 308;
  received at Fleury by the elder Mirabeau, ii. 310, 311;
  the prince of Conti next receives him at Trye, ii. 312;
  composes the second part of the Confessions here, ii. 312;
  delusion returns, ii. 312, 313;
  leaves Trye, and wanders about the country, ii. 312, 313;
  estrangement from Theresa, ii. 313;
  goes to Paris, ii. 314;
  writes his Dialogues there, ii. 314;
  again earns his living by copying music, ii. 315;
  daily life in, ii. 315, 316;
  Bernardin St. Pierre’s account of him, ii. 317-321;
  his veneration for Fenelon, ii. 321;
  his unsociality, ii. 322;
  checks a detractor of Voltaire, ii. 324;
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