FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   447   448   449   450   451   452   453   454   455   456   >>  
e to pronounce him incapable of, ii. 19. Switzerland, i. 330. TACITUS, i. 177. Theatre, Rousseau's letter, objecting to the, i. 133; his error in the matter, i. 134. Theology, metaphysical, Descartes' influence on, i. 226. Theresa (see Le Vasseur). Thought, school of, division between rationalists and emotionalists, i. 337. Tonic Sol-fa notation, close correspondence of the, to Rousseau's system, i. 299. Tronchin on Voltaire, i. 319, _n._, 321. Turgot, i. 89; his discourses at the Sorbonne in 1750, i. 155; the one sane eminent Frenchman of eighteenth century, i. 202; his unselfish toil, i. 233; ii. 193; mentioned, ii. 246, 294. Turin, Rousseau at, i. 34-43; leaves it, i. 45; tries to learn Latin at, i. 91. Turretini and other rationalisers, i. 226; his works, i. 226, _n._ UNIVERSE, constitution of, discussion on, i. 311-317. VAGABOND life, Rousseau's love of, i. 63, 68. Val de Travers, ii. 77; Rousseau's life in, ii. 91-95. Vasseur, Theresa Le, Rousseau's first acquaintance with, i. 106, 107, also _ib._ _n._; their life together, i. 110-113; well befriended, ii. 80, _n._; her evil character, ii. 326. Vauvenargues on emotional instinct, ii. 34. Venice, Rousseau at, i. 100-106. Vercellis, Madame de, Rousseau servant to, i. 39. Verdelin, Madame de, her kindness to Theresa, ii. 80, _n._; to Rousseau, ii. 118, _n._ Village Soothsayer, the (_Devin du Village_), composed at Passy, performed at Fontainebleau and Paris, i. 212; marked a revolution in French Music, i. 291. Voltaire, i. 2, 21, 63; effect on Rousseau of his Letters on the English, i. 86; spreads a derogatory report about Rousseau, i. 101, _n._; his "Princesse de Navarre," i. 119; criticism on Rousseau's first Discourse, i. 147; effect on his work of his common sense, i. 155; avoids the society of Paris, i. 202; his conversion to Romanism, i. 220, 221; strictures on Homer and Shakespeare, i. 280; his position in the eighteenth century, i. 301; general difference between, and Rousseau, i. 301; clung to the rationalistic school of his day, i. 305; on Rousseau's second Discourse, i. 308; his poem on the earthquake of Lisbon, i. 309, 310; his sympathy with suffering, i. 311, 312; entreated by Rousseau to draw up a civil profession of religious faith, i. 317; denounced by Rousseau as a "trumpet of impiety," i. 317, 320,
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   447   448   449   450   451   452   453   454   455   456   >>  



Top keywords:

Rousseau

 

Theresa

 
Discourse
 

eighteenth

 
Vasseur
 

century

 

Voltaire

 

effect

 

school

 

Village


Madame

 
Vercellis
 

emotional

 

report

 
derogatory
 
Letters
 
servant
 

instinct

 

spreads

 
English

Venice
 

performed

 

Soothsayer

 

composed

 
Fontainebleau
 
revolution
 

French

 

Verdelin

 

marked

 

kindness


avoids
 

sympathy

 

suffering

 

Lisbon

 

earthquake

 

entreated

 

trumpet

 

impiety

 

denounced

 
profession

religious

 
rationalistic
 
common
 

Vauvenargues

 

society

 
Princesse
 

Navarre

 
criticism
 

conversion

 
Romanism