The confessions Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE CONFESSIONS J. J. ROUSSEAU. BOOK Vl. Hoc erat In voiis : modus agri. non tta magnui, Hortus tibi, vinea, et leflo vicinus aqua: f(nss Et paulum f... more »ytvce fufer bisforet. I CANNOT add, auftius atque D! meliu; fecert. no matter, I wanted no more; I did not even wifh to be the proprietor : the enjoyment of it was fufficient to me; I have long faid and thought the proprietor and pof- feflbr are often two different people, putting hufbands and gallants out of the queftion. Here begins the fhort happinefs of my life ; now come the peaceable, but rapid moments which give me a right to fay I have lived. Precious and regretted moments ! Ah, begin again your lovely courfe ; glide more gently through my memory, if pofllblc, than you re;lly did in your fugitive fucceffion. What ihall I do to prolong to my wifh this recital fp touching and io fimple; to tell over and Vol. II. E over over the fame things, and not tire my readers by repeating them more than I myfelf was tired by incefTantly recommencing them ! JBe- fides, did this confift in facts, in actions, in words, I might defcribe and render them fome - how; but how fay that which was neither done, nor thought, but tafted, but felt, without my being able to exprefs any other object of my happinefs but this feeling only. 1 rofe with the fun, and was happy ; I walked and was happy ; I faw Mamma and was happy; I quitted her and was happy ; I ran over the woods, the hills, ftrayed through the valleys, I read, refted, worked in the garden, gathered fruit, affifted in the houfe, and happinefs followed me to every place ; it was not, in any thing affignable, it was all within me, it could not leave me a fingle inftant. Not the leaft thing which happened to me during this lovely period, nothing I did, faid,or thoug...« less