Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 654 pages of information about Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2).

Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 654 pages of information about Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2).

Chatham, Lord, ii. 92.

Chaumette, ii. 178;
  guillotined on charge of endeavouring to establish atheism in
     France, ii. 179.

Chesterfield, Lord, ii. 15.

Choiseul, ii. 57, 64, 72.

Citizen, revolutionary use of word, derived from Rousseau, ii. 161.

Civilisation, variety of the origin and process of, i. 176;
  defects of, i. 176;
  one of the worst trials of, ii. 102.

Cobbett, ii. 42.

Collier, Jeremy, on the English Stage, i. 323.

Condillac, i. 95.

Condorcet, i. 89;
  on Social Position of Women, i. 335;
  human perfectibility, ii. 119;
  inspiration of, drawn from the school of Voltaire and Rousseau,
     ii. 194;
  belief of, in the improvement of humanity, ii. 246;
  grievous mistake of, ii. 247.

Confessions, the, not to be trusted for minute accuracy, i. 86,
     n.;
  or for dates, i. 93;
  first part written 1766, ii. 301;
  their character, ii. 303;
  published surreptitiously, ii. 324, n.;
  readings from, prohibited by police, ii. 324.

Conti, Prince of, ii. 4-7;
  receives Rousseau at Trye, ii. 118.

Contract, Social, i. 136.

Corsica, struggles for independence of, ii. 99;
  Rousseau invited to legislate for, ii. 99-102;
  bought by France, ii. 102.

Cowper, i. 20;
  ii. 41;
  on Rousseau, ii. 41 n.;
  lines in the Task, ii. 253;
  his delusions, ii. 301.

Cynicism, Rousseau’s assumption of, i. 206.

D’AIGUILLON, ii. 72.

D’Alembert, i. 89;
  Voltaire’s staunchest henchman, i. 321;
  his article on Geneva, i. 321;
  on Stage Plays, i. 326, n.;
  on Position of Women in Society, i. 335;
  on Rousseau’s letter on the Theatre, i. 336;
  suspected by Rousseau of having written the pretended letter from
     Frederick of Prussia, ii. 288;
  advises Hume to publish account of Rousseau’s quarrel with him,
     ii. 294.

D’Argenson, ii. 180.

Dates of Rousseau’s letters to be relied on, not those of the
     Confessions, i. 93.

Davenport, Mr., provides Rousseau with a home at Wootton, ii. 286;
  his kindness to Rousseau, ii. 306.

Deism, Rousseau’s, ii. 260-275;
  that of others, ii. 262-265;
  shortcomings of Rousseau’s, ii. 270.

Democracy defined, ii. 168;
  rejected by Rousseau, as too perfect for men, ii. 171.

D’Epinay, Madame, i. 194, 195, 205;
  gives the Hermitage to Rousseau, i. 229, n.;
  his quarrels with, i. 271;
  his relations with, i. 273, 276;
  journey to Geneva of, i. 284;
  squabbles arising out of, between, and Rousseau, Diderot, and
     Grimm, i. 285-290;
  mentioned, ii. 7, 26, 197;
  wrote on education, ii. 199;
  applies to secretary of police to prohibit Rousseau’s readings
     from his Confessions, ii. 324.

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