Rousseau, Nide 1

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Chapman and Hall, 1873 - 686 sivua
 

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Sivu 331 - Collier published his Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage...
Sivu 171 - 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 170 - ... 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 185 - I have lived with communities of savages in South America and in the East, who have no laws or law courts but the public Opinion of the village freely expressed. Each man scrupulously respects the rights of his fellow, and any infraction of those rights rarely or never takes place. In such a community, all are nearly equal.
Sivu 132 - 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 74 - I rose with the sun and I was happy ; I went to walk and I was happy ; I saw 'Maman' and I was happy ; I left her and I was happy. I rambled...
Sivu 185 - Now, although we have progressed vastly beyond the savage state in intellectual achievements, we have not advanced equally in morals. It is...
Sivu 248 - 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 7 - 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 39 - Never," he says, in his account of this hateful action, "was wickedness further from me than at this cruel moment; and when I accused the poor girl, it is contradictory and yet it is true that my affection for her was the cause of what I did. She was present to my mind, and I threw the blame from myself on to the first object that presented itself. When I saw her appear my heart was torn, but the presence of so many people was too strong for my remorse. I feared punishment very little; I only feared...

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