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Anecdote of J.J. Rousseau

1797-05-15 Subjects: Conduct of life Forms: Article in periodical, Biographies Printing and Publishing Status: New edition Translation Status: Partial Philadelphia

Authors of source text

Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

Contributions

Richard Lee: publisher; translator

Related resources

is other edition: Studies of nature. By James-Henry-Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. Translated by Henry Hunter D.D. translation has other edition
is part of: The American Universal Magazine

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British Library

Notes

May 1797, vol. 2, p. 224. Anecdote by Rousseau about buying apples for the poor people at a village fair. The morale is that doing good should be done judiciously. The fragment is one of many excerpt in the magazine from the English translation of Bernardin Saint-Pierre's Studies of Nature.