[12] Streckeisen, ii. 28, etc.
[13] _Ib._, 29.
[14] _Conf._, x. 99.
[15] _Ib._, x. 57.
[16] _Ib._, xi. 119.
[17] _Corr._, ii. 196. Feb. 16, 1761.
[18] _Ib._, ii. 102, 176, etc.
[19] _Conf._, x. 60.
[20] _Corr._, ii. 12.
[21] As M. St. Marc Girardin has put it: "There are in all Rousseau's
discussions two things to be carefully distinguished from one another;
the maxims of the discourse, and the conclusions of the controversy.
The maxims are ordinarily paradoxical; the conclusions are full of
good sense." _Rev. des Deux Mondes_, Aug. 1852, p. 501.
[22] _Corr._, ii. 244-246. Oct. 24, 1761.
[23] _Ib._, 1766. _Oeuv._, lxxv. 364.
[24] _Corr._, ii. 32. (1758.)
[25] _Corr._, ii. 63. Jan. 15, 1779.
[26] Bernardin de St. Pierre, xii. 102.
[27] 4th Letter, p. 375.
[28] _Mém._, ii. 299.
[29] _Corr._, ii. 98. July 10, 1759.
[30] _Corr._, ii. 106. Nov. 10, 1759.
[31] _Ib._, ii. 179. Jan. 18, 1761.
[32] _Ib._, ii. 268. Dec. 12, 1761.
[33] _Ib._, ii. 28. Dec. 23, 1761.
[34] _Nouv. Hél._, III. xxii. 147. In 1784 Hume's suppressed essays on
"Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul" were published in
London:--"With Remarks, intended as an Antidote to the Poison
contained in these Performances, by the Editor; to which is added, Two
Letters on Suicide, from Rousseau's Eloisa." In the preface the reader
is told that these "two very masterly letters have been much
celebrated." See Hume's _Essays_, by Green and Grose, i. 69, 70.
[35] _Corr._, iii. 235. Aug. 1, 1763.
[36] _Corr._, ii. 226. Sept. 29, 1761.
[37] P. 294. Jan. 11, 1762.
[38] Madame Latour (Nov. 7, 1730-Sept. 6, 1789) was the wife of a man
in the financial world, who used her ill and dissipated as much of her
fortune as he could, and from whom she separated in 1775. After that
she resumed her maiden name and was known as Madame de Franqueville.
Musset-Pathay, ii. 182, and Sainte Beuve, _Causeries_, ii. 63.
[39] _Corr._, ii. 214. _Conf._, ix. 289.
[40] English translations of Rousseau's works appeared very speedily
after the originals. A second edition of the Heloïsa was called for as
early as May 1761. See _Corr._ ii. 223. A German translation of the
Heloïsa appeared at Leipzig in 1761, in six duodecimos.
[41] For instance, _Corr._, ii. 168. Nov. 19, 1762.
[42] Choderlos de La Clos: 1741-1803.
[43] Journal, iv. 496. (Ed. Charpentier, 1857.)
[44] _Nouv. Hél._, III. xiv. 48.
[45] _E.g._ Letters, 40-46.
[46] Madame de Staël (1765-1817), in her _Lettres sur les écrits et le
caractère de J.J. Rousseau_, written when she was twenty, and her
first work of any pretensions. _Oeuv._, i. 41. Ed. 1820.
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