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

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

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Book Six: Part 1

Hoc erat in votis: modus agri non ita magnus, Hortus ubi et tecto vicinus jugis aquae fons, Et paulum sylvae super his foret....

Horace, Satires, II, 6.

I cannot add, auctius atque Di melius fecere: no matter, I wanted no more; I did not even wish to be the proprietor, the enjoyment of it was sufficient to me; I have long said and thought the proprietor and possessor are often two different people, putting husbands and gallants out of the question.

Here begins the short happiness of my life; now come the peaceable, but rapid moments which give ...

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