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For an instructive and, as it appears to me, a thoroughly trustworthy account of the temper in which the Confessions were written, see the 4th of the Rêveries. Letter to the Duke of Grafton, Feb. 27, 1767. Corr., v. 98: also 118. Corr., v. 37. Corr., v. 88. See the letters to Du Peyrou, of the 2d and 4th of April 1767. Corr., v. 140-147. Davenport to Hume; Burton, 367-371.
Conf., xi. 175. It is generally printed in the volume of his works entitled Mélanges. Corr., iii. 416. Conf., xi. 172. For a remarkable anticipation of the ruin of France, see Conf., xi. 136. M. Roguin. June 14, 1762. Corr., ii. 347. Streckeisen, i. 35. His friend Moultou wrote him the news, Streckeisen, i. 43. Geneva was the only place at which the Social Contract was burnt.
This lapidation has sometimes been doubted, and treated as an invention of Rousseau's morbid suspicion. The fifth of the Rêveries. See also Conf., 262-279, and Corr., iv. 206-224. His stay in the island was from the second week in September down to the last in October, 1765. Corr., iv. 221. Oct. 20, 1765. Ib., iv. 136, etc. April 27, 1765. Streckeisen-Moultou, ii. 209, 212. Ib., ii. 554.
Elliot, Debates, ii. 414. Madison, Letters, etc. i. 418. Writings of Washington, ix. 433. Bancroft, Hist. Const. ii. 483. Corr. Rev. iv. 240-241. Ibid. iv. 241. Jour. Va. House Del. 42-43. Jour. Va. House Del. 32. Madison, Letters, etc., i. 443-444.
I did suppose her vaultin' ambition to rival Dora Corr woman who managed to burn her own and a lot of other people's fingers by meddlin' in South African politics over the Raid business had been quenched for good that mornin' you took those fifty chaps of the Irregulars out for what she would call their 'baptism of fire."
La Femme au 18ième siècle, par MM. de Goncourt, p. 40. Madame d'Epinay's Mém., i. 295. Quoted in Goncourt's Femme au 18ième siècle, p. 378. Ib., p. 337. Mdlle. L'Espinasse's Letters, ii. 89. Madame d'Epinay's Mém., ii. 47, 48. Ib., ii. 55. Mém., Bk. iv. 327. Corr. Lit., iii. 58. Ib., 54. Madame d'Epinay's Mém., i. 378-381.
Moreover her letter to him describing it could only have been written to one who had not seen it, and though her Memoirs are full of sheer imagination and romance, the documents in them are substantially authentic, and this letter is shown to be so by Rousseau's reply to it. Mém., ii. 116. Corr. , i. 242. Corr., i. 245. Phædrus, 230. Conf., viii. 221, etc.
This is why artists called pictures representing the things which were sent to guests "xenia." Thus, too, the heads of families, while being entertained abroad, had the feeling that they were not away from home, since they enjoyed privacy and freedom in such guests' apartments. Corr. Hell. 1895
Letter to Hume; Burton's Life of Hume, ii. 105, corroborating Conf., xii. 196. Marischal to J.J.R.; Streckeisen, ii. 70. Corr., iii. 40. Nov. 1, 1762. Burton's Life, ii. 113. Voltaire's Corr. . Oeuv., lxxv. pp. 31 and 80. Conf., xii. 237. Corr., iii. 41. Nov. 11, 1762. Corr., iii. 38. Oct. 30, 1762. Ib., iii. 110-115. Jan. 28, 1763. Bernardin de St. Pierre, xii. 103, 59, etc.
We have subjected his volumes to a laborious examination such as few books receive, because the text of Shakspeare is a matter of common and great concern, and they have borne the trial, except in these few impertinent particulars, admirably. Mr. Dyce and Mr. Singer are only dry commonplace-books of illustrative quotations; Mr. Collier has not wholly recovered from his "Corr. fo."-madness; Mr.
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