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The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

18-Jun-09

http://gregorydowling.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https://gregorydowling.com/wp-admin/user/index.php Rousseau begins his Confessions with a most daring preface, which it is well to offer here to the reader: I have resolved on an enterprise which has no precedent, and which, once complete, will have no imitator. My purpose is to display to my kind a portrait in every way true to nature, and the […]