1782 · Skopia

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Nonfiction · Autobiography and memoir

Confessions

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1782 · 676 pages

Every confessional memoir descends from this. Rousseau promised to show himself entire and delivered: the ribbon he stole and blamed on a servant girl, the five children he gave to a foundling hospital.

★ 7.1

Fiction · Epistolary novel

Dangerous Liaisons

Pierre Choderlos De Laclos

1782 · 448 pages

Two aristocrats conduct seduction as a military campaign, and every move reaches us through their own letters. Their targets are a devout married woman and a girl just out of the convent.

★ 6.6

Louis Sebastian Mercier

1782

★ 5.3

Patriotism in the female Sex is the most disinterested of all virtues. Excluded from honours and from offices, we cannot attach ourselves to the State or Goverment from having held a place of Eminence...Yet all History and every age exhibit Instances of patriotick virtue in the female Sex; which considering our situation equals the most Heroick of yours.

Letter to John Adams, June 17, 1782 · 1782

★ 3.6

A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

Conversations · 1782

★ 3.6

Grief is itself a med'cine.

1782

★ 3.6

Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid.

1782

★ 3.6

There is room for everybody in America; has he any particular talent or industry? He exerts it in order to procure a livelihood, and it succeeds.

J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

Letters from an American Farmer · 1782

★ 3.5

Men are like plants; the goodness and flavor of the fruit proceeds from the peculiar soil and exposition in which they grow.

J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

Letters from an American Farmer · 1782

★ 3.5

Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world.

J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

1782

★ 3.5

He likes the country, but in truth must own, Most likes it, when he studies it in town.

1782

★ 3.5

What then is the American, this new man? He is either a European, or the descendant of a European, hence that strange mixture of blood, which you will find in no other country... Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world.

J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

1782

★ 3.5

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

1782

★ 1.9

Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.

Retirement · 1782

★ 1.9

They are plants that will grow in any soil that is cultivated by the hands of others; and, when once they have taken root, they will extinguish every other vegetable that grows around them... The most ignorant, the most bungling member of that profession, will, if placed in the most obscure part of the country, promote litigiousness, and amass more wealth without labor, than the most opulent farmer with all his toils.

J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

1782

★ 1.8