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Confessions Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Book Twelve: Part 4

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

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Book Twelve: Part 4

During all this fermentation I received from two circumstances the most sensible pleasure. The first was my having it in my power to prove my gratitude by means of the Lord Marshal. The honest part of the inhabitants of Neuchatel, full of indignation at the treatment I received, and the manoeuvres of which I was the victim, held the ministers in execration, clearly perceiving they were obedient to a foreign impulse, and the vile agents of people who, in making them act, kept themselves concealed; they were moreover afraid my case would have ...

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