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Page v
... Language Texts for the use of English - speaking University students ; at the same time , it is hoped that the Series may be found serviceable in the Upper Forms of Schools . PREFACE THE first aim of the following pages is to V.
... Language Texts for the use of English - speaking University students ; at the same time , it is hoped that the Series may be found serviceable in the Upper Forms of Schools . PREFACE THE first aim of the following pages is to V.
Page vii
... first aim of the following pages is to provide a correct text of the Contrat social , together with such notes as are necessary for the full understanding of Rousseau's meaning . My second aim , an aim pursued both in the Notes and the ...
... first aim of the following pages is to provide a correct text of the Contrat social , together with such notes as are necessary for the full understanding of Rousseau's meaning . My second aim , an aim pursued both in the Notes and the ...
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... first conceived , as Rousseau himself tells us , nearly twenty years earlier , during his residence at Venice ( 1743-44 ) .1 But we know that he did not begin to work at his design until 1750 or 1751- that is , we may fairly assume ...
... first conceived , as Rousseau himself tells us , nearly twenty years earlier , during his residence at Venice ( 1743-44 ) .1 But we know that he did not begin to work at his design until 1750 or 1751- that is , we may fairly assume ...
Page xiv
... first impression left on our minds by the latter group of writings is strangely different from that left by the former . If in the political writings the State is all in all , ' in the moral and social writings it seems at first sight ...
... first impression left on our minds by the latter group of writings is strangely different from that left by the former . If in the political writings the State is all in all , ' in the moral and social writings it seems at first sight ...
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... first leads him to domineer over his neighbours , to enslave them , so far as may be , to his greater riches or his greater power . The second makes his own life a burden to him in so far as he cannot come to be , or at least suppose ...
... first leads him to domineer over his neighbours , to enslave them , so far as may be , to his greater riches or his greater power . The second makes his own life a burden to him in so far as he cannot come to be , or at least suppose ...
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