Rousseau, Nide 1

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Chapman and Hall, 1873
 

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Sivu 329 - Collier published his Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage...
Sivu 169 - THE first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
Sivu 168 - ... a just mean between the indolence of the primitive state and the petulant activity of our egoism, must have been the happiest and most stable of epochs.
Sivu 130 - Pedagogy," p. 286. All at once I felt myself dazzled by a thousand sparkling lights; crowds of vivid ideas thronged into my mind with a force and confusion which threw me into unspeakable agitation ; I felt my head whirling in a giddiness like that of intoxication.
Sivu xii - Comme dans les étangs assoupis sous les bois, Dans plus d'une âme on voit deux choses à la fois, Le ciel, qui teint les eaux à peine remuées Avec tous ses rayons et toutes ses nuées, Et la vase, — fond morne, affreux, sombre et dormant, Où des reptiles noirs fourmillent vaguement.
Sivu 5 - It was in Rousseau that polite Europe first hearkened to strange voices and faint reverberation from out of the vague and cavernous shadow in which the common people move.
Sivu 246 - I did not think, I did not reason, I did not philosophize. I felt, with a kind of voluptuousness, as if bowed down by the weight of this universe ; I gave myself up with rapture to this confusion of grand ideas. I delighted in imagination to lose myself in space ; my heart, confined...
Sivu xiii - CHRiSTiANiTY is the name for a great variety of changes which took place during the first centuries of our era, in men's ways of thinking and feeling about their spiritual relations to unseen powers, about their moral relations to one another, about the basis and type of social union. So the Revolution is now the accepted name for a set of changes which began faintly to take a definite practical shape first in America, and then in France, towards the end of the eighteenth century...
Sivu 4 - ... it was Rousseau who first in our modern time sounded a new trumpet note for one more of the great battles of humanity.
Sivu 318 - That the dead body of a man should feed worms or wolves or plants is not, I admit, a compensation for the death of such a man; but if in the system of this universe, it is necessary for the preservation of the human race that there should be a circulation of substance between men, animals, vegetables, then the particular mishap of an individual contributes to the general good. I die, I am eaten by worms ; but my children, my brothers, will live as I have lived ; my body enriches the earth of which...

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