Commonplace book, 1800 and later.

1 v. (ca. 300 p.) ; 21 x 18 cm.

English; French

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Manuscript collection, lightly annotated and corrected, primarily of extracts from philosophical treatises and other prose works in English or in French. Includes excerpts from: Emile, Nouvelle Heloise, Du Contrat Social, Confessions, and other works by Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Essays, and History of England by David Hume; Lectures on Rhetoric by Hugh Blair; Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos; Sur la Peinture by Anton Raphael Mengs; Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke; an unidentified work by Jean de la Bruyère; and other short verses, anecdotes, and excerpts from works on natural philosophy, education, rhetoric, grammar, and art. An excerpt in Italian from a theatrical work by Pietro Metastasio; an excerpt in English from Pliny's letters.

August 08, 2005

Commonplace Book, 1800 and later. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Commonplace Book, 1800 and later. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.