 | John Rae - 1895 - 484 Seiten
...treating them with severity, but Rousseau conducts the reader to reason and truth by the attractions of sentiment and the force of conviction. His ' Social...Compact ' will one day avenge all the persecutions he suffered." Smith asked the Professor if he loved music, and on being told that it was one of his chief... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1904 - 262 Seiten
...and sometimes by treating them with severity; but Rousseau catches his reader in the net of reason by the attraction of sentiment and the force of conviction. His Social Contract may well avenge him one day for all his persecutions." Smith's features became very animated... | |
 | Pierre Force - 2003 - 300 Seiten
...in Edinburgh. Saint-Fond describes Smith's admiration for Rousseau in the strongest possible terms: One evening while I was at tea with him he spoke of...Compact will one day avenge all the persecutions he experienced."66 This testimony is consistent with Emma Rothschild's recent speculation on "Smith's... | |
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Rousseau also, and spoke of him " with a kind of religious respect." " Voltaire," he said, " set himself to correct the vices and follies of mankind by laughing at them, and sometimes by treating them with severity, but Rousseau conducts the reader to... 