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Confessions Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Book Five: Part 1

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

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Book Five: Part 1

It was, I think, in 1732, I arrived at Chambery, as I have just said; and that I commenced my employment of registering land for the King. I had passed my twentieth year, and was almost one-and-twenty. I was, for my age, well enough formed as to the mind; but my judgement was far from being so, and I had great occasion for those into whose hands I fell to learn a proper conduct: for a few years of experience had not yet cured me radically of my romantic visions; and though I had suffered so many evils, I knew as little of the world and mankind as if ...

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