Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau: Now for the First Time Completely Translated Into English Without Expurgation : in Two Volumes

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Privately printed, 1896
 

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الصفحة xxi - Judgment sound when it will, I will present myself before the Sovereign Judge with this book in my hand. I will say boldly : " This is what I have done, what I have thought, what I was.
الصفحة 4 - I believed myself a Greek or a Roman ; I lost my identity in that of the individual whose life I was reading ; the recitals of the qualities of endurance and intrepidity which arrested my attention made my eyes glisten and strengthened my voice.
الصفحة 107 - ... loss which not only his own family and friends, but which society in general, sustains by the loss of this excellent person : and I need not tell you, for of this too I know you are sensible, that of all his friends, (his own family excepted,) none has so much cause of sorrow, on this occasion, as I. I should never have done, if I were to enter into the particulars of his kindness to me. For these many years past, I have had the happiness to be of his intimate acquaintance.
الصفحة xxi - Myself alone! I know the feelings of my heart, and I know men. I am not made like any of those I have seen; I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
الصفحة 40 - ... my heart; I should have been a good Christian, a good citizen, a good father of a family, a good friend, a good workman, a good man in...
الصفحة 148 - I have to seek them now is not the same as that in which I found them then. Among the common people, where great passions only speak at intervals, the sentiments of nature make themselves heard oftener. In the higher ranks they are absolutely stifled, and under the mask of sentiment it is only interest or vanity that speaks.
الصفحة 227 - But no matter; I had no need of more; I did not even need any property at all; the enjoyment of it was enough for me, and I have long ago said and felt, that the proprietor and the possessor are often two very different persons, even if one leaves husbands and lovers out of the question. At this period commences the brief happiness of my life; here approach the peaceful, but rapid moments which have given me the right to say, / have lived. Precious and regretted moments! begin again for me your delightful...

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