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Confessions Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Book Two: Part 2
From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
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Book Two: Part 2
My regret at arriving so soon at Turin was alleviated by the pleasure of seeing a great city, and by the hope of soon figuring there in a manner worthy of me; for the fumes of ambition had already reached my head: I already regarded myself as much above the condition of an apprentice; I was far from foreseeing that in a short time I should be much below it.
Before I proceed farther, I ought to make to the reader my excuse or justification, as well for the trifling narrations I have just entered into, as for those I may enter into afterwards, and ...
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