Rousseauism
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It was all Rousseauism in experiment and reduced to absurdity.
From French Classics by William Cleaver Wilkinson
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 William Cleaver Wilkinson
Lareveillere Lepaux, a member of the French Directory, invented a new religion of Theo-philanthropy which seems in fact to have been an organized Rousseauism.
From Lectures and Essays by Goldwin Smith
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 William Milligan Sloane
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 Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
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