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But the received view Is that the Girondins were Voltairean, and the Jacobins Rousseauite, while Danton was of the school of the Encyclopaedia, and Hébert and Chaumette were inspired by Holbach.

From Studies in Literature by Morley, John

The old Rousseauite point of view is here completely abandoned.

From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas, Calvin

He felt that the troubles of Carlos and the queen could not be regarded under the Rousseauite scheme of natural passion battling with odious convention, but that the passion was itself odious.

From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas, Calvin

At any rate the air was surcharged with Rousseauite feeling.

From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas, Calvin

From Rousseauite literature he had caught a fantastic conception of 'nature', and this had led him to portray men and women who were scarcely more natural than those of Gottsched himself.

From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas, Calvin