How To Use Rousseau In A Sentence
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This lapidation has sometimes been doubted, and treated as an invention of Rousseau's morbid suspicion.
Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau [1] herborized with the bunch of chick-weed whereon he fed his Canary;
The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles
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the movement is philosophically indebted to Rousseau
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The best of every bit that goes into making a wedding trousseau will be here at the exhibition, she assures.
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Through his narrative of the illumination, Rousseau mythologized the violence of breaking this mold as the liberation of self through the experience of accident.
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Before his illumination, Rousseau's thoughts had turned incessantly upon his relation to his fellow men.
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his contention contains more than an echo of Rousseau
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In Rousseau's novel fainting is part of the construction of the figure of the woman of feeling as an object of male fantasy, which construction makes Julie either physically or mentally absent from almost all intense moments of sexual intimacy.
Ildiko Csengei
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Camilla was still carrying on a vast arrangement which she called the preparation of her trousseau, but which both Mrs French and Bella regarded as a spoliation of the domestic nest, for the proud purposes of one of the younger birds.
He Knew He Was Right
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By 1708, eighty French backwoodsmen lived in the Natchez villages, enjoying ample food supplies and local customs that enjoined premarital sex for profit on young women building their trousseaus.
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What Rousseau called the inferior ‘freedom’ of the state of nature may indeed be preferable to the violence and terror of slavery, and perhaps even to the soft contemporary dependency of neocolonialism.
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How could I possibly know that right at that very instant, he was stepping into the Upper East Side apartment of a call girl who had decided a month earlier that the name Cristal Rousseau wasn’t projecting the class-up-the-ass image she had been aiming for.
As Husbands Go
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This was also the period in which young women were apprenticed to seamstresses, to prepare their trousseau and be initiated into the skills of seduction.
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Voltaire helped us laugh and question, and Rousseau theorized the social contract our societies are based on.
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While Rousseau is frequently cited with approval by numerous leaders of the sans-culottes, or by Robespierre or Gracchus Babeuf, Rousseau was more a prophet of radical individualism than he was of cooperation.
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In firm and lofty character, pain is mastered; in a character so little endowed with cool tenacious strength as Rousseau's, pain such as he endured was enough to account, not for his unsociality, which flowed from temperament, but for the bitter, irritable, and suspicious form which this unsociality now first assumed.
Rousseau
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Western scholar Hugo Grotius, Thomas Hobbes , John Locke , Rousseau expand and supplement the human rights theory from different respects.
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Beethoven delighted Rousseau's Romantic admirers with his demonstration of the moral force expressible in music.
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No more so was this seen than with highly anticipated weddings of society women, whose trousseaux, bridesmaids, groom, and wedding gifts were newspaper fodder even for those invited!
The Wedding | Edwardian Promenade
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Few disputed that a bride's personal items, her trousseau, went with her.
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The cloth is creased, the day's newspaper is folded neatly, and an unopened letter to Monsieur Ph. Rousseau awaits its reader.
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Also, since the target is the wedding season, designing for women makes better business sense ‘since women worry more about what they are going to wear’ and the traditional trousseau brings in plenty of revenue.
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One, the douanier, Rousseau, has painted no very great difference between the sexes.
TalkTalk
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Rousseau offered no programme for changing society wholesale to restore mankind in general to its primal innocence and goodness.
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Is de Man now going to tell us that his liberal construal of Rousseau carries the authority of objective validity?
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Jean was an illuminator who established a thriving workshop in Bourges with the help of André Rousseau, a scribe, manuscript agent, and the librarian of the university.
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Rousseau, by contrast, cast his work as a speculative, and moralizing account of society in general.
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In mid-fifteenth-century Florence, the husband typically spent about a third to two-thirds of the dowry on clothes for the new wife and furnishings - often well above the cost of the trousseau.
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The trousseau had accompanied my mother on her sea journey from Scotland, a hopeless chest filled with the sort of frippery that quickly disintegrates in Africa.
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To help support the family, Magnin opened a small store and began sewing and selling lace-trimmed baby clothes, lingerie, and bridal trousseaux, an art she had learned from her mother.
Mary Ann Cohen: Magnin.
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Ola was busy sewing and getting her trousseau together.
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It's very lucky that Mother had started putting together my trousseau when William proposed to me last October, otherwise we would have an impossible amount of work to do.
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For years, Lowe worked in Florida creating gowns for the trousseaux of socialites.
Black Fashion Museum collection finds a fine home with Smithsonian
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Neither was it a Rousseauist abstraction, but a body of angry sans-culottes protesting against the recession and tax increases.
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The trousseau had accompanied my mother on her sea journey from Scotland, a hopeless chest filled with the sort of frippery that quickly disintegrates in Africa.
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If you do as I say, you'll be rewarded as if you really did create my trousseau.
TREASON KEEP
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This is not a trousseau collection or even bridal wear.
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The thing itself appears first definitely [404] in Madame de la Fayette, largely, though not unmixedly, in Marivaux, and to some extent in Prévost and Marmontel, while it is, as it were, sublimed in Rousseau, and present very strongly in
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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Hall, not being versed in finance and not wanting to let his pastoral calling interfere with WICB's future, sent Banks to Jamaica to be briefed by Rousseau.
CaribbeanCricket.com
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Rousseau's "antimodern tunnel vision," Mr. Potter says, can be found in various modern forms: in the views of the American Transcendentalists of the 19th century and the counterculture heroes of the 1960s, for instance; or in such gloomy social critics as Al Gore and Prince Charles and alarmists like James Howard Kunstler.
Why It's So Hard To Get Real
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Rousseau's philosophy holds that people are inherently good
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Rousseau contrasted the disease of amour-propre with the healthy amour-de-soi, a love of self which motivates a man to protect himself and his life without really caring how others see him (but still acting with pity and compassion, which Rousseau considered innate).
Ashley Rindsberg: Mr. President, You Are Sick With Self Love
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In a commercial society, according to Rousseau, the people are "scheming, violent, greedy, ambitious, servile, and knavish . . . and all of it at one extreme or the other of misery and opulence.
America's Enduring Ideal
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In the light of this distrust in the effectiveness of verbal instruction, what was Rousseau's opinion of reading?
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The Senator virtually emptied his pockets to provide that, and a trousseau at which neither Andrew McClintock nor anyone else could sneer.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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In the light of this distrust in the effectiveness of verbal instruction, what was Rousseau's opinion of reading?
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He seemed stunned that the Princess Adrina had even heard of him, let alone wanted him to design her trousseau.
TREASON KEEP
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It is not so much the use of language that Rousseau deplores - even less of figurative language, since figuration represents for Rousseau the form under which language first appeared.
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We are in trouble just now, on account of a neglected hereditary _melanosis_, as Monsieur Trousseau might call it.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863
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Cascades of flowers suggested a bride ripe for defloration, a trousseau of fine undergarments accompanied her on her honeymoon and she returned a sexual being.
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This lady -- evidently agreeing with Rousseau (who in _Emile_ commended the mother's reply to the child's query whence babies come, "Les femmes les pissent, mon enfant, avec des grands douleurs") that the unknown should first be explained to the young in terms of the known -- told her that the husband micturated into the wife.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women
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Rousseau taught that human beings are naturally asocial, and in that case to live in society is to be terribly oppressed (unless, he thought, you totally surrender your self).
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Her book is full of fascinating detail on trousseaux and privies, fireplaces and forks, underwear and bathing, mealtimes and much else.
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According to M. Guizot, “Tacite a peint les Germains comme Montaigne et Rousseau les sauvages, dans un acces d’humeur contre sa patrie: son livre est une satire des moeurs Romaines, l’eloquente boutade d’un patriote philosophe qui veut voir la vertu la, ou il ne rencontre pas la mollesse honteuse et la depravation savante d’une vielle societe.”
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The search for art created beyond the reach of academic officialdom began with the discovery of Henri Rousseau by Picasso's circle in early twentieth century France.
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There is long groan with clutching wrist. Sigh the flimflam . You have become a trousseau!
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Rousseau went much further than constructive, intelligent suggestions for urban planning.
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Many people regarded the French armies as the propagators of the ideas of Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Voltaire; while the fact was, that, if any traces of the opinions of these great men remained in the instruments of the power of Bonaparte, it was only to liberate them from what they called prejudices, and not to establish a single regenerating principle.
Ten Years' Exile
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The Musée d' Orsay has sent The Snake Charmer, my favourite Rousseau, in which a pitch-black silhouette of an Indian pipe-player, who is hung with snakes, tempts closer a pink approximation of a roseate spoonbill.
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The two coolest things: (1) Discussion of the mezzotints of the Ramsay portraits of Hume and Rousseau (the Ramsay paintings can be seen online at the National Gallery of Scotland).
Archive 2005-07-01
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Rousseau had been living in Switzerland, but his heterodox religious views had made him enemies there, nor could he rely on being undisturbed in France.
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Just like Rousseau, Finlay has created an art which sets the notion of the Arcadian idyll against mankind's extreme barbarity.
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Beethoven delighted Rousseau's Romantic admirers with his demonstration of the moral force expressible in music.
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Is de Man now going to tell us that his liberal construal of Rousseau carries the authority of objective validity?
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At his best — as in the small drypoint "Portrait of Ernest Rousseau, State III" (1887), the Turneresque painting "The Domain of Arnheim" (1890), and the tiny, red-and-white oil portrait "Man of Sorrows" (1891), in which Christ's visage looks as if it is bleeding to the surface — Ensor is able to tap into something real and deep, to merge form and feeling until it achieves near-iconic status.
The Uncommitted Fantasist
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I'd begin from the ancient Roman ideal of manliness - which is the root of our term virtue [vir is Latin for man] - and work up through the weakening of that ideal of manliness by Christianity, and on towards Rousseau's bourgeois man before turning to Hemingway and such figures as Michael Landon as Pa Ingalls [here I would be indebted to Dutch.]
Archive 2006-06-18
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Rousseau's return to nature, he affirms, reeks of reactivity, self-loathing and ressentiment against the aristocratic culture.
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She pressed a hasty kiss on my burning lips, giving and prolonging it with the violent voluptuousness of fear, as the spurred boots of her sweetheart made the wooden steps of the stairs creak, and the intriguer was in fear of losing her Dutch linen trousseau and her godroon silver pot.
The Queen Pedauque
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And they are busy planning as soon-to-be-married couples would be, having little tiffs over the usual stuff, bonding over the usual stuff, picking out trousseaux, like, again, any couple that is soon to be married -- lots of white, sexy, frilly lingerie pieces.
CNN Transcript Jul 25, 2003
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Among special studies of individual diseases were: on tabes dorsalis by Romberg, Duchenne, Armand Trousseau (1801-66),
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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He quarrelled with Rousseau after being on intimate terms with him, but then everybody did.
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Among the worthies depicted: the poet, dramatist and philosopher Voltaire and the great encyclopedist Denis Diderot, both by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714-85), and the philosopher and composer Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Houdon, who is far better known for his work in terra cotta and marble.
France's Artistic Mettle in Metal
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It was Jean-Jacques Rousseau who invented the melodrama in his dramatic monologue Pygmalion, first performed in Paris in the early 1760s.
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Rousseau introduced a new moral system, which was in essence a reiteration of ideas already set forth by Shaftesbury and Pope.
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I hear they are much pleased with my article on "Les Charmettes & Rousseau"; 12 and they have another, called "William Lentile & Thomas Walt" ,13 which Hunt saw in Pisa, and said it was very good indeed.
New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn
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I dread that she should acquire preposterous notions of love, of happiness, from the furtive perusal of vulgar novels, or from the clandestine conversation of ignorant waiting-maids: – I dread that she should acquire, even from the enchanting eloquence of Rousseau, the fatal idea, that cunning and address are the natural resources of her sex; that coquetry is necessary to attract, and dissimulation to preserve the heart of man.
Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification
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I was not at all embarrassed : " For my trousseau.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau expounded the idea that government rested on a social contract.
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A two-term electee, Rousseau has come under criticism recently for the role of the coroner's office in the mishandling of a cruise ship death last year.
Break No Bones
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Gifts to the groom and the bride's trousseau and wedding clothes are displayed.
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This concept is based on Rousseau's idea that men are born morally neutral.
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There were also those who opposed Rousseau's argument of women's different nature and argued instead for the social equality of women.
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Besides, she's getting married soon, and I thought it would be nice if I could give her a wedding trousseau as a gift.
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Let other girls record their crushes and their dresses, their tresses and trousseaux.
Fall On Your Knees
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Appolinaire wrote the epitaph written on Rousseau's tombstone.
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Alas, this deep insatiableness of sense, the dreary vacuity of soul that follows fulness of animal delight, the restless exactingness of undirected imagination, was never recognised by Rousseau distinctly enough to modify either his conduct or his theory of life.
Rousseau
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People from neighboring countries fly down on weekends to finalize their trousseaux.
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As Jean Jacques Rousseau said - man is born free, but everywhere in chains.
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The decoration perhaps refers to the fact that such elegant pairs of knives are often referred to as wedding knives, and they were popular gifts for the bridal trousseau.
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According to Robespierre, who copies Rousseau literally, the legislator begins by decreeing the end for which the commonwealth has come into being.
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The doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty was illegitimate, if not incomprehensible, to Rousseau.
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She picked herself a fine trousseau and had it delivered to the ship which she had booked her passage on.
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For the purpose of my argument Rousseau was a romantic idealist who believed in individualism and and that the human condition was perfectible, and he was, in fact, these things.
Matthew Yglesias » The Collapse of Latvia
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Here he is at one with modern thought: En général les croyants font le Dieu comme ils sont eux-mêmes, (says J.J. Rousseau, Confessions, I. 6): les bons le font bon: les méchants le font méchant: les dévots haineux et bilieux, ne voient que lenfer, parce quils voudraient damner tout le monde; les âmes aimantes et douces ny croient guère; et lun des étonnements dont je ne reviens pas est de voir le bon Fénélon en parler dans son Télémaque comme sil y croyoit tout de bon: mais jespère quil mentoit alors; car enfin quelque véridique quon soit, il faut bien mentir quelquefois quand on est évêque.
The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi
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Born in Geneva and fleeing that city at age 16, Rousseau moved to Savoy where, under the influence of his benefactress Baronne de Warens, he transformed from an uneducated apprentice to a man of letters.
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I count Euripides among them, and would also include in this category Aristotle, Rousseau, Hume, and Adam Smith.
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“Homer of the North,” could fulfill Rousseauistic, deistic, and preromantic visions of a pre-Christian society unspoiled by institutions and filled with love, melancholy, and nature.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Should we marvel then at the Cynics and the hippies, the Rousseaus and the Gauguins, sensitive souls that pilgrimaged towards incorporeal spirit, but found the altar crowded with genuflections before idolatrous matter?
In Quest of Happiness
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Smitten with Rousseau's conception of the perfectness of the savage state, and the essential abortiveness of all civilization, Mr. Fuseli looks at all our little attempts at improvement, with a spirit that borders perhaps too much upon contempt and indifference.
Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Palissot, * at sixty years old, was destined to expiate in a prison a satire upon Rousseau, written when he was only twenty, and escaped, not by the interposition of justice, but by the efficacity of a bon mot.
A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
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This two-parter is merely a presentation of my theories about Rousseau, written for a fan site, for free.
The Tail Section » Your Voice: Rousseau - Shipwreck Survivor or Rampant Liar? Part 1
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Rousseau was concerned with unity between the author and his work, but not in terms of consistent ideas.
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If Rousseau had been alive today, the arch-sentimentalist would have been spilling his guts to Oprah and excusing the excesses of present-day sans-culottes like a Guardian leader.
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She has not yet developed what Rousseau called amour propre - love of one's own, in the sense of loving one's own position/status/reputation viz. others.
Archive 2007-01-07
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And Rousseau's thought certainly led to divergent opinions as to what really mattered.
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While this entry lends more supporting evidence that the practice at the time was having men sing all choral parts save, occasionally, the top (dessus) line in choral music from the period, Rousseau rocks because he asks, WTF?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: champion of among other things, mezzos!
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Rousseau asked that that part of the forest be left unmanaged, preserved for true nature lovers such as the Barbizon artists.
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The new constitution was true to Rousseau.
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Rousseau's preference was for what he calls aristocracy, a government of the most wise and experienced.
The Eve of the French Revolution
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However, he was hailed as a great artist and visionary by Picasso, Magritte and Ernst, who admired Rousseau's primitive style of painting and viewed him as being part of a force that was changing the face of art.
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The trousseau of a young bride would contain twenty or thirty of these dresses, seven of which are worn, one on top of the other, on the ‘night of henna’ immediately prior to the marriage ceremony.
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Positive Law, to get back to purely natural principles, it accepted from Rousseau and the Utilitarians the principle that all right comes from the State, all authority from the consentient wills of the people of the State.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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Alas, this deep insatiableness of sense, the dreary vacuity of soul that follows fulness of animal delight, the restless exactingness of undirected imagination, was never recognised by Rousseau distinctly enough to modify either his conduct or his theory of life.
Rousseau
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Rousseau laid the basis for modern ideas of democracy and the legitimacy of majority rule.
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This was Kant's judicious way of amending Rousseau's notorious maxim, that, in a state founded on the social contract, the dissenter must be forced to be free.
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The only funerary trousseaux that remain intact are those of Hetepheres, mother of Cheops, which, it seems, were buried once again in the vicinity of the grand pyramid, and of Iahhetep I, whose sarcophagus was discovered by Mariette on the left bank of Thebes.
Exhibit of Egyptian Queens
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Robespierre was a disciple of Rousseau - both considered the general will an absolute necessity.
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Rousseau had been on the lam throughout the States since 1981, using the stolen identity of a Dallas radio newsreader.
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We may doubt, in spite of one or two charming and graceful passages, whether Rousseau was of a nature to have any feeling for the pathos of infancy, the bright blank eye, the eager unpurposed straining of the hand, the many turns and changes in murmurings that yet can tell us nothing.
Rousseau
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This pair of appliquéd silk camiknickers is part of a trousseau for her second marriage in 1940.
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This theory of intuitionism influenced later philosophers, in particular Rousseau and Bergson, but also the existentialists.
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Child-centered education began with Rousseau and Pestalozzi. It was developed further in the United States by John Dewey. In the United States it was called progressive education.
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Horace Walpole had written a squib against him, which Rousseau attributed to Hume.
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Bethan came in, her arms full of the freshly ironed pieces of Isabel's complicated trousseau.
THE WHITE DOVE
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Reste le Douanier Rousseau au Grand Palais attention à la cohue, plutôt sans Tadpole, et Ingres au Louvre.
Monday
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By ‘Egyptian style’ Rousseau meant the elements of African tribal art that Picasso and other artists had assimilated when they developed the art movement known as cubism.
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According to M. Guizot, "Tacite a peint les Germains comme M.ntaigne et Rousseau les sauvages, dans un acces d'humeur contre sa patrie: son livre est une satire des moeurs Romaines, l'eloquente boutade d'un patriote philosophe qui veut voir la vertu la, ou il ne rencontre pas la mollesse honteuse et la depravation savante d'une vielle societe.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1
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Theodore Rousseau's burning winter sunrise over the Qise, its darkness torch-streaked with carmine and gold, sets off a chain-shot of diamantine flames in the hoarfrost on the stony riverbank.
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It is the bridegroom who has to present a wedding trousseau to the bride.
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In traditional families, a new bride's parents visit her in her new home on the fortieth day after the marriage and give her a trousseau.
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For whom were the three stacked plates and why does Rousseau eat alone?
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This was also the period in which young women were apprenticed to seamstresses, to prepare their trousseau and be initiated into the skills of seduction.
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In O. Fr., according to Rousseau, _ballet_ signifies "to dance, to sing, to rejoice"; and thus it incorporates three distinct modern words, "ballet, ball and ballad.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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For once, my Victorian reading came to the rescue, and I realized that what I was beholding was none other than the remains of an old custom no longer in use, the echo of an era when the homes of the wealthy had mannequins made to measure for different members of the family, used for tailoring their dresses and trousseaux.
The Shadow of the Wind
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Considering Rousseau, with whom he quarrelled, as utopian, he hypothesized an art which was morally neutral and elitist.
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We have a trousseau collection that will truly delight you.
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“For instance, he is collecting a library and has made it a rule not to buy a new book till he has read what he had already bought — Sismondi and Rousseau and Montesquieu,” he added with a smile.
War and Peace
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But, Jacques, could you envy the trousseau of Dutch linen and the godroon plate that the gentleman is to present me with!
The Queen Pedauque
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Rousseau explodes the simplistic harmoniousness between nature and society that seems to be the American premise.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a great thinker, philosopher in the 18th century France Enlightenment period and also the thought pioneer of French capitalist resolution.
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Therefore, if Rousseau were interested in spiritualism, during his lifetime it need not have made him an object of ridicule.
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While Madame Hecquet was printing her biography of Memmie, Jean-Jacques Rousseau published his seminal work, Discourse On The Origins of Inequality.
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The period between the betrothal and the wedding also allowed the bride to prepare her trousseau, while the groom could use the time to make preparations for the wedding.
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Here he is at one with modern thought: En général les croyants font le Dieu comme ils sont eux-mêmes, (says J.J. Rousseau, Confessions, I. 6): les bons le font bon: les méchants le font méchant: les dévots haineux et bilieux, ne voient que lenfer, parce quils voudraient damner tout le monde; les âmes aimantes et douces ny croient guère; et lun des étonnements dont je ne reviens pas est de voir le bon Fénélon en parler dans son Télémaque comme sil y croyoit tout de bon: mais jespère quil mentoit alors; car enfin quelque véridique quon soit, il faut bien mentir quelquefois quand on est évêque.
The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi
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Is de Man now going to tell us that his liberal construal of Rousseau carries the authority of objective validity?
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Rousseau imagined that the childhood of some men is accompanied by this seeming and deceitful dulness, which is the sign of a profound genius; and Roger Ascham has placed among "the best natures for learning, the sad-natured and hard-witted child;" that is, the thoughtful, or the melancholic, and the slow.
Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
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Moreover, were one to impose the cynicism of Rousseau's origination of the conceptualisation of words, it would perhaps be correct to claim that the term globalisation has little substance than the aesthetic (see Rousseau (1762) pp. 90).
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The origins of this conception go back to Rousseau's insistence - revealingly at variance with his own voluntarist construction of the general will - that a civil religion alone could found the stability of a republic.
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Tuition is coming due and Cat's dear mother just spent a fortune on her trousseau !
TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH
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Rousseau argued that reason had led man out of his innocent state of nature into decadence.
