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Confessions Jean Jacques Rousseau Large 14 Point Font Print

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Author : Jean Jacques Rousseau
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-07-08

Confessions Jean Jacques Rousseau Large 14 Point Font Print written by Jean Jacques Rousseau and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-08 with categories.

I have entered upon a performance which is without example, whose accomplishment will have no imitator. I mean to present my fellow-mortals with a man in all the integrity of nature; and this man shall be myself.I know my heart, and have studied mankind; I am not made like any one I have been acquainted with, perhaps like no one in existence; if not better, I at least claim originality, and whether Nature did wisely in breaking the mould with which she formed me, can only be determined after having read this work.Whenever the last trumpet shall sound, I will present myself before the sovereign judge with this book in my hand, and loudly proclaim, thus have I acted; these were my thoughts; such was I. With equal freedom and veracity have I related what was laudable or wicked, I have concealed no crimes, added no virtues; and if I have sometimes introduced superfluous ornament, it was merely to occupy a void occasioned by defect of memory: I may have supposed that certain, which I only knew to be probable, but have never asserted as truth, a conscious falsehood. Such as I was, I have declared myself; sometimes vile and despicable, at others, virtuous, generous and sublime; even as thou hast read my inmost soul: Power eternal! assemble round thy throne an innumerable throng of my fellow-mortals, let them listen to my confessions, let them blush at my depravity, let them tremble at my sufferings; let each in his turn expose with equal sincerity the failings, the wanderings of his heart, and, if he dare, aver, I was better than that man.I was born at Geneva, in 1712, son of Isaac Rousseau and Susannah Bernard, citizens. My father's share of a moderate competency, which was divided among fifteen children, being very trivial, his business of a watchmaker (in which he had the reputation of great ingenuity) was his only dependence. My mother's circumstances were more affluent; she was daughter of a Mons. Bernard, minister, and possessed a considerable share of modesty and beauty; indeed, my father found some difficulty in obtaining her hand.The affection they entertained for each other was almost as early as their existence; at eight or nine years old they walked together every evening on the banks of the Treille, and before they were ten, could not support the idea of separation. A natural sympathy of soul confined those sentiments of predilection which habit at first produced; born with minds susceptible of the most exquisite sensibility and tenderness, it was only necessary to encounter similar dispositions; that moment fortunately presented itself, and each surrendered a willing heart.The obstacles that opposed served only to give a decree of vivacity to their affection, and the young lover, not being able to obtain his mistress, was overwhelmed with sorrow and despair. She advised him to travel-to forget her. He consented-he travelled, but returned more passionate than ever, and had the happiness to find her equally constant, equally tender. After this proof of mutual affection, what could they resolve?-to dedicate their future lives to love! the resolution was ratified with a vow, on which Heaven shed its benediction.Fortunately, my mother's brother, Gabriel Bernard, fell in love with one of my father's sisters; she had no objection to the match, but made the marriage of his sister with her brother an indispensable preliminary. Love soon removed every obstacle, and the two weddings were celebrated the same day: thus my uncle became the husband of my aunt, and their children were doubly cousins german. Before a year was expired, both had the happiness to become fathers, but were soon after obliged to submit to a separation.My uncle Bernard, who was an engineer, went to serve in the empire and Hungary, under Prince Eugene, and distinguished himself both at the siege and battle of Belgrade.

The Confessions Of Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-01-07

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The Confessions

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Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-08-24

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In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in Paris, to his wanderings as an exile, persecuted by governments and alienated from the world of modern civilization. In trying to explain who he was and how he came to be the object of others' admiration and abuse, Rousseau analyses with unique insight the relationship between an elusive but essential inner self and the variety of social identities he was led to adopt.

Confessions

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Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-02-28

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"It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living." "There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character." "It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.""The indolence I love is not that of a lazy fellow who sits with his arms across in total inaction, and thinks no more than he acts, but that of a child which is incessantly in motion doing nothing, and that of a dotard who wanders from his subject. I love to amuse myself with trifles, by beginning a hundred things and never finishing one of them, by going or coming as I take either into my head, by changing my project at every instant, by following a fly through all its windings, in wishing to overturn a rock to see what is under it, by undertaking with ardor the work of ten years, and abandoning it without regret at the end of ten minutes; finally, in musing from morning until night without order or coherence, and in following in everything the caprice of a moment.""Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous." Among the notable books of later times--we may say, without exaggeration, of alltime--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals withleading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism andfeudalism were rallying for their last struggle against the modern spirit, chiefly representedby Voltaire, the Encyclopedists, and Rousseau himself--a struggle to which, after manyfierce intestine quarrels and sanguinary wars throughout Europe and America, hassucceeded the prevalence of those more tolerant and rational principles by which thestatesmen of our own day are actuated.On these matters, however, it is not our province to enlarge; nor is it necessary tofurnish any detailed account of our author's political, religious, and philosophic axioms andsystems, his paradoxes and his errors in logic: these have been so long and soexhaustively disputed over by contending factions that little is left for even the mostassiduous gleaner in the field. The inquirer will find, in Mr. John Money's excellent work, theopinions of Rousseau reviewed succinctly and impartially. The 'Contrat Social', the 'LettresEcrites de la Montagne', and other treatises that once aroused fierce controversy, maytherefore be left in the repose to which they have long been consigned, so far as the massof mankind is concerned, though they must always form part of the library of the politicianand the historian. One prefers to turn to the man Rousseau as he paints himself in theremarkable work before us.That the task which he undertook in offering to show himself--as Persius puts it--'Intuset in cute', to posterity, exceeded his powers, is a trite criticism; like all human enterprises,his purpose was only imperfectly fulfilled; but this circumstance in no way lessens theattractive qualities of his book, not only for the student of history or psychology, but for theintelligent man of the world. Its startling frankness gives it a peculiar interest wanting inmost other autobiographies.Many censors have elected to sit in judgment on the failings of this strangely constitutedbeing, and some have pronounced upon him very severe sentences. Let it be said oncefor all that his faults and mistakes were generally due to causes over which he had but littlecontrol, such as a defective education, a too acute sensitiveness, which engenderedsuspicion of his fellows, irresolution, an overstrained sense of honour and independence,and an obstinate refusal to take advice from those who really wished to befriend him; norshould it be forgotten that he was afflicted during the greater part of his life with anincurable disease.

Books In Print

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994

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Paperbound Books In Print

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991

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The Hidden Text Of Mill S Liberty

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Author : Stewart Justman
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 1991

The Hidden Text Of Mill S Liberty written by Stewart Justman and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Philosophy categories.

'...a new and important reading of Mill that bridges several disciplines. It is essential reading for anybody concerned about the delicate fabric of our republican tradition....The work is scholarly, insightful, and written at a level that makes its important message accessible to student, scholar, and layperson.'-Scott G. McNall, University of Toledo