Confessions Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Second Part: Foreword

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

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Second Part: Foreword

These pages, full of faults of every kind, and which I have not even had time to read over, suffice to set every friend of truth upon its track, and to give him the means of verifying it from his own information. Unhappily, it would be difficult, nay impossible, for them to elude the vigilance of my enemies. If they fall into the hands of an honest man, or of the friends of M. de Choiseul, if they come to M. de Choiseul himself, I suppose the honour of my memory is not wholly without resource. But, O heaven, protector of innocence, keep safe ...

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