[3] _Conf._, i. 7.

[4] _Lettre à D'Alembert_, p. 187. Also _Nouv. Hél._, VI. v. 239.

[5] _Conf._, i. 9. Also Second Letter to M. de Malesherbes, p. 356.

[6] _Rêveries_, iv. p. 189. "My master and counsellor, Plutarch," he
says, when he lends a volume to Madame d'Epinay in 1756. _Corr._, i.
265.

[7] Dedication of the _Discours sur l'Origine de l'Inégalité_, p. 201.
(June, 1754.)

[8] _Conf._, i. 1.

[9] _Ib_, i. 12.

[10] The tenacity of this grateful recollection is shown in letters to
her (Madame Gonceru)--one in 1754 (_Corr._, i. 204), another as late
as 1770 (vi. 129), and a third in 1762 (_Oeuvr. et Corr. Inéd._, 392).

[11] _Conf._, i. 17-32.

[12] See also _Conf._, i. 43; iii. 185; vii. 73; xii. 188, _n._ 2.

[13] _Conf._, i. 27-31.

[14] _Conf._, i. 38-47.

[15] _Lettre à D'Alembert_(1758), 178, 179.