"If nature has given to the brain of children that softness of texture, which renders it proper to receive every impression, it is not fit for us to imprint the names of sovereigns, dates, terms of art, and other insignificant words of no meaning to them while young, nor of any use to them as they grow old: but it is our duty to trace out betimes all those ideas which are relative to the state and condition of humanity, those which relate to their duty and happiness, that they may serve to conduct them through life in a manner agreeable to their being and faculties."
Eloisa: Or, a Series of Original Letters [La Nouvelle HÃ©loÃ¯se]
At least ten entries in the ESTC (1761, 1764, 1767, 1769, 1776, 1784, 1795).<br>
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Text from <u>Eloisa: Or, a Series of Original Letters Collected and Published by J.J. Rousseau. Translated from the French.</u> 4 vols. (London: Printed for R. Griffiths and T. Becket, 1761). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=XQBEAAAAYAAJ">Link to Vol. I</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=kgBEAAAAYAAJ">Link to Vol. II</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=twBEAAAAYAAJ">Link to Vol. III</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=2ABEAAAAYAAJ">Link to Vol. IV</a>&gt;