Rousseauism
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His dogged conservatism prevented him from recognising the strength of the philosophical movements which were beginning to clothe themselves in Rousseauism.
From English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
By Rousseauism we indicate the doctrinal dream of that dreamer; by no means the actual waking practice of the man that dreamed.
From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver
It must be confessed that his own shallow political science, the second-hand Rousseauism he had learned from his desultory reading, had little to do with this, except negatively.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan
We of the twentieth century are not going to accept the sweetish, faintly nasty slops of Rousseauism that so gratified our great-great-grandparents in the eighteenth.
From A Modern Utopia by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
It reverts to the age of Louis XIV., and Rousseauism in their literature is as true an innovation and parenthesis as Pope-and-Drydenism was in ours.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes
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