Contemporary Opinion of Rousseau in English PeriodicalsMeredith College, 1922 - 44 páginas |
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Página 41 - My dear Sir, you don't call Rousseau bad company. Do you really think him a bad man?" JOHNSON. "Sir, if you are talking jestingly of this, I don't talk with you. If you mean to be serious, I think him one of the worst of men; a rascal, who ought to be hunted out of society, as he has been. Three or four nations have expelled him: and it is a shame that he is protected in this country.
Página 41 - I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation, than that of any felon who has gone from the Old Bailey these many years. Yes, I should like to have him work in the plantations.
Página 22 - Maxims and Principles of Education in the Second Book of Rousseau's Emile.
Página 7 - Magazine, a periodical pamphlet, of which the scheme is known wherever the English language is spoken. To this undertaking he owed the affluence in which he passed the last twenty years of his life, and the fortune which he left behind him, which...
Página 41 - WE have had the great professor and founder of the philosophy of Vanity in England. As I had good opportunities of knowing his proceedings almost from day to day, he left no doubt in my mind that he entertained no principle either to influence his heart or to guide his understanding but vanity; with this vice he was possessed to a degree little short of madness.
Página 7 - Magazine," which has now subsisted fifty years, and still continues to enjoy the favour of the world*, is one of the most successful and lucrative pamphlets which literary history has upon record, and therefore deserves, in this narrative, particular notice. • Mr. Cave, when he formed the project, was far from expecting the success which he found ; and others had so little prospect of its consequence, that though he had for several years talked of his plan...
Página 41 - Rousseau to record a life, not so much as chequered or spotted here and there with virtues, or even distinguished by a single good action. It is such a life he chooses to offer to the attention of mankind.
Página 18 - In those days a strange person shall appear in France, coming from the borders of a lake, and he shall cry to the people, Behold I am possessed by the demon of enthusiasm ; I have received the gift of incoherence ; I am a philosopher, and a professor of paradoxes. And a multitude shall follow him, and many shall believe in him. And he shall say to them, You are all knaves and fools ; and your wives and daughters are debauched ; and I will...
Página 6 - Our business is to enter no farther into the province of criticism than just so far as may be indispensably necessary to give some idea of such books as come under our consideration.
Página 31 - The pamphlet you mention was wrote by one as mad as himself, and it was believed at first to be by Tristram Shandy, but proves to be [by] one Fuseli an engraver. He is a fanatical admirer of Rousseau, but owns he was in the wrong to me.