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| Days of absence, sad and dreary, / Clothed in sorrow’s dark array,— / Days of absence, I am weary: / She I love is far away. |
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| Jean Jacques Rousseau |
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| 1712–78, Swiss-French philosopher, author, political theorist, and composer.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  r -s ´ from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- WORKS
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- On the Inequality among Mankind
The movers of the French Revolution would embrace the ideas elaborated herein. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XXXIV, Part 3.
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- Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar
One statement of Rousseau’s principles of religious faith. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XXXIV, Part 4.
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- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 47342 to 47373
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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