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Wiktionary
- n. A male given name of Latin origin, an anglicized spelling of French Émile.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the boy whose upbringing was described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Examples
“Emile was excited to try his own capabilities, and soon presented to his friends the manuscript of _Emile_, a story, the principal parts of which were true records of his own life.”
Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business
“The atmosphere of working class Munich is well-conveyed, reminding me of L'Assommoir and Nana in Emile Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, which explored poverty and squalor in Paris 50 years before the events of ICE COLD.”
“In 1904, she and Pierre saw the prospect for the financial support of their institute in Emile Armet de Lisle's attempts to market radium salts.”
“In a word Emile is possessed of all that portion of virtue which concerns himself.”
“Masked Marksman: 26 Corpse Without a Coffin - Emile C. Tepperman”
“For instance, the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (1755) presents a kind of natural history tracing the genesis of many emotions through changes in social structure; works such as Emile (1762), La Nouvelle Heloise (1761), and the Confessions (1782) treat the affective maturation and socialization of individuals, as well as the management and effects of the emotions.”
“And still the one dedicated a church to the service of God, whilst the other in his "Emile" wrote a vindication of”
“Rousseau in "Emile" chose a common capacity to educate, because, he said, genius will educate itself; but even genius would find its labours lightened by having been taught the use of some few tools, such as are supplied by the rudiments of a conventional education.”
The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius
“The Sorbonne upheld him and appointed him one of the censors who condemned Rousseau's "Emile".”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
“The classic advocate of this theory is Rousseau, who maintains, in his "Emile", that God looks only to the sincerity of intention, and that everybody can serve Him by remaining in the religion in which he has been brought up, or by changing it at will for any other that pleases him more (Emile, III).”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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