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Eloisa, Or, a Series of Original Letters (3)
Eloisa Or a Series of Original Letters - 3 Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau Volume: 3 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1784 Original Publisher: Printed by H. Baldwin, sold by R. Baldwin ... and T. Becket Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you g... more »et free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: , man, are very fortunate to become the wife of a prince ! Between ourfelves, neverthelefs, youdif- coverapprehenfions which are fomewhat vulgar for a woman of fuch high qunlity. Do not you know, that little fcruples belong to mean people; and that a child of a good family, who fhould pretend to be his father's fon, would be laughed at ? LETTER CXXXIII. MR. WOLMAR TO MRS. OREE. I A M going to Etange, my fweet coufin, and I propofed to call upon you in my way) but a delay, ot which you are the caufe, obliges me to make more hafts, and I had rather lie at Laufanne as I come back, that I may pafs a few hours the more with you. Befides, I want to confult you with regard to many particulars, which it is proper to communicate beforehand, that you may have time to confider them before you give me your opinion. 1 would not explain my fcheme to you in relation to the young man, till his prefence had confirmed the good opinion I had conceived of him. 1 think I may now di. pend upon him fufficiently to acquaint you, between ourfelves, that my dcfign is to entrufr him with the education of my children. lam not ignorant that thefe important concerns are the principal duty of a parent; but when it will be time to exert them, them, I fhall be too old to difcharge them, and being naturally calm and fpecuiativeby conftitu- tion, I fhould never have been fufficiently active to govern the fpirit of youth. Befides, for a rea- fori you know, Elcifa would be concerned to fee me afl'ume an office, in which I fhould never acquit myf...« less