| | 145 | Author: | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar  | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Expect from me neither learned declamations nor profound arguments. I am no great philosopher, and give myself but little trouble in regard to becoming such.
Still I perceive sometimes the glimmering of good sense, and have always a regard for the
truth. I will not enter into any disputation, or endeavor to refute you; but only lay down
my own sentiments in simplicity of heart. Consult your own during this recital: this is all
I require of you. If I am mistaken, it is undesignedly, which is sufficient to absolve me of
all criminal error; and if I am right, reason, which is common to us both, shall decide. We
are equally interested in listening to it, and why should not our views agree? | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 160 | Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Morals Lecture | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I WAS SOLICITED to go round the world on a lecture tour by a man in Australia. I asked him
what they wanted to be lectured on. He wrote back that those people were very coarse and
serious and that they would like something solid, something in the way of education, something
gigantic, and he proposed that I prepare about three or four lectures at any rate on just morals,
any kind of morals, but just morals, and I like that idea. I liked it very much and was perfectly
willing to engage in that kind of work, and I should like to teach morals. I have a great enthusiasm
in doing that and I shall like to teach morals to those people. I do not like to have them taught to
me and I do not know any duller entertainment than that, but I know I can produce a quality of
goods that will satisfy those people. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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