their reign would not permit.
[355] _Lettre a J.J. Rousseau_, pp. 265-271.
[356] _Oeuv._, x. 121.
[357] To Thieriot, Sept. 17, 1758. To D'Alembert, Oct. 20, 1761. _Ib._
March 19, 1761.
END OF VOL. I.
_Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, _Edinburgh_
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ROUSSEAU
BY
JOHN MORLEY
VOL. II.
London
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1905
_All rights reserved_
_First printed in this form 1886_
_Reprinted 1888, 1891, 1896, 1900, 1905_
CONTENTS OF VOL. II.
CHAPTER I.
MONTMORENCY--THE NEW HELOISA.
Conditions preceding the composition of the New Heloisa 1
The Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg 2
Rousseau and his patrician acquaintances 4
Peaceful life at Montmorency 9
Equivocal prudence occasionally shown by Rousseau 12
His want of gratitude for commonplace service 13
Bad health, and thoughts of suicide 16
Episode of Madame Latour de Franqueville 17
Relation of the New Heloisa to Rousseau's general doctrine 20
Action of the first part of the story 25
Contrasted with contemporary literature 25
And with contemporary manners 27
Criticism of the language and principal actors 28, 29
Popularity of the New Heloisa 31
Its reactionary intellectual direction 33
Action of the second part 35, 36
Its influence on Goethe and others 38
Distinction between Rousseau and his school 40
Singular pictures of domesticity 42
Sumptuary details 44
The slowness of movement in the work justified 46
Exaltation of marriage 47
Equalitarian tendencies 49
Not inconsistent with social quietism 51
Compensation in the political consequences of the triumph of sentiment
54
Circumstances of the publication of the New Heloisa 55
Nature of the trade in books 57
Malesherbes and the printing of Emilius 61
Rousseau's suspicions 62
The great struggle of the moment 64
Proscription of Emilius 67
Flight of the author 67
CHAPTER II.
PERSECUTION.
Rousseau's journey from Switzerland 69
Absence of vindictiveness 70
Arrival at Yverdun 72
Repairs to Motiers 73
Relations with Frederick the Great 74
Life at Motiers 77
Lord Marischal 79
Voltaire 81
Rousseau's letter to the Archbishop of Paris 83
Its dialectic 86
The ministers of Neuchatel 90
Rousseau's singular costume 92
His throng of visitors 93
Lewis, prince of Wuertemberg 95
Gibbon 96
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