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).

Theresa (see Le Vasseur).

Thought, school of, division between rationalists and emotionalists,
     i. 337.

Tonic Sol-fa notation, close correspondence of the, to Rousseau’s
     system, i. 299.

Tronchin on Voltaire, i. 319, n., 321.

Turgot, i. 89;
  his discourses at the Sorbonne in 1750, i. 155;
  the one sane eminent Frenchman of eighteenth century, i. 202;
  his unselfish toil, i. 233; ii. 193;
  mentioned, ii. 246, 294.

Turin, Rousseau at, i. 34-43;
  leaves it, i. 45;
  tries to learn Latin at, i. 91.

Turretini and other rationalisers, i. 226;
  his works, i. 226, n.

UNIVERSE, constitution of, discussion on, i. 311-317.

VAGABOND life, Rousseau’s love of, i. 63, 68.

Val de Travers, ii. 77; Rousseau’s life in, ii. 91-95.

Vasseur, Theresa Le, Rousseau’s first acquaintance with, i. 106,
     107, also ib. n.;
  their life together, i. 110-113;
  well befriended, ii. 80, n.;
  her evil character, ii. 326.

Vauvenargues on emotional instinct, ii. 34.

Venice, Rousseau at, i. 100-106.

Vercellis, Madame de, Rousseau servant to, i. 39.

Verdelin, Madame de, her kindness to Theresa, ii. 80, n.;
  to Rousseau, ii. 118, n.

Village Soothsayer, the (Devin du Village), composed at
     Passy, performed at Fontainebleau and Paris, i. 212;
  marked a revolution in French Music, i. 291.

Voltaire, i. 2, 21, 63;
  effect on Rousseau of his Letters on the English, i. 86;
  spreads a derogatory report about Rousseau, i. 101, n.;
  his “Princesse de Navarre,” i. 119;
  criticism on Rousseau’s first Discourse, i. 147;
  effect on his work of his common sense, i. 155;
  avoids the society of Paris, i. 202;
  his conversion to Romanism, i. 220, 221;
  strictures on Homer and Shakespeare, i. 280;
  his position in the eighteenth century, i. 301;
  general difference between, and Rousseau, i. 301;
  clung to the rationalistic school of his day, i. 305;
  on Rousseau’s second Discourse, i. 308;
  his poem on the earthquake of Lisbon, i. 309, 310;
  his sympathy with suffering, i. 311, 312;
  entreated by Rousseau to draw up a civil profession of religious
     faith, i. 317;
  denounced by Rousseau as a “trumpet of impiety,” i. 317, 320,
     n.;
  his satire and mockery irritated Rousseau, i. 319;
  what he was to his contemporaries, i. 321;
  the great play-writer of the time, i. 321;
  his criticism of Rousseau’s Letter on the Theatre, i. 336;
  his indignation at wrong, ii. 11;
  ridicule of the New Heloisa, ii. 34;
  less courageous than Rousseau, ii. 65;
  contrast between the two, i. 99, ii. 75;
  supposed to have stirred up animosity at Geneva against Rousseau,

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