Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Cosmopolitan Spirit in Literature: A Study of the Literary Relations Between France and England During the Eighteenth Century |
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Page xii
... German and English virus , we are constrained to recognize that Swiss blood has , for a century past , been flowing through our inmost veins . " The whole object of this book is to exhibit Rousseau as the man who has done the most to ...
... German and English virus , we are constrained to recognize that Swiss blood has , for a century past , been flowing through our inmost veins . " The whole object of this book is to exhibit Rousseau as the man who has done the most to ...
Page xvi
... German literature nothing was known during the eighteenth century beyond a few names , and Gessner was the only ... Germans . Only a few of the more inquiring minds paid any attention to the writings of " the Danes and Swedes " mentioned ...
... German literature nothing was known during the eighteenth century beyond a few names , and Gessner was the only ... Germans . Only a few of the more inquiring minds paid any attention to the writings of " the Danes and Swedes " mentioned ...
Page xx
... German spirit , so long as there is a Germany or a France still in existence ? What science authorizes us to classify , to judge and to define that which still lives and moves , and every day advances towards an end of which we cannot ...
... German spirit , so long as there is a Germany or a France still in existence ? What science authorizes us to classify , to judge and to define that which still lives and moves , and every day advances towards an end of which we cannot ...
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... German . So late even as 1665 the Journal des savants was unable to find anyone who could contribute an account of the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London . " The English , " wrote Le Clerc , " have many good works ; it is a pity ...
... German . So late even as 1665 the Journal des savants was unable to find anyone who could contribute an account of the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London . " The English , " wrote Le Clerc , " have many good works ; it is a pity ...
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... German ; as though a cultured German were a prodigy . " " I acknow- ledge , " Ariste interrupted , " that cultivated minds are somewhat rarer in cold countries , because nature is there more languid and mournful , so to speak . " " You ...
... German ; as though a cultured German were a prodigy . " " I acknow- ledge , " Ariste interrupted , " that cultivated minds are somewhat rarer in cold countries , because nature is there more languid and mournful , so to speak . " " You ...
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