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Confessions Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Book Nine: Part 3

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

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Book Nine: Part 3

Everything seemed to concur in withdrawing me from my charming and mad reverie. I was not recovered from the late attack I had had when I received the copy of the poem on the destruction of Lisbon, which I imagined to be sent to me by the author. This made it necessary I should write to him and speak of his composition. I did so, and my letter was a long time afterwards printed without my consent, as I shall hereafter have occasion to remark.

Struck by seeing this poor man, overwhelmed, if I may so speak, with prosperity and honour, bitterly ...

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