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Title: Emile
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Release date: April 1, 2004 [eBook #5427]
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Language: English
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EMILE
By Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Translated by Barbara Foxley
Author's Preface
This collection of scattered thoughts and observations has little order or continuity; it was begun to give pleasure to a good mother who thinks for herself. My first idea was to write a tract a few pages long, but I was carried away by my subject, and before I knew what I was doing my tract had become a kind of book, too large indeed for the matter contained in it, but too small for the subject …