# Figures of Several Centuries

Author: Symons, Arthur, 1865-1945

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21407

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## Summary

The _Confessions_ of St. Augustine are the first autobiography, and they have this to distinguish them from all other autobiographies, that they are addressed directly to God. Rousseau's unburdening of himself is the last, most effectual manifestation of that nervous, defiant consciousness of other people which haunted him all his life. He felt that all the men and women whom he passed on his way through the world were at watch upon him, and mostly with no very favourable intentions. The exasperation of all those eyes fixed upon him, the absorbing, the protesting self-consciousness which they called forth in him, drove him, in spite of himself, to set about explaining himself to other peo...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/figures-of-several-centuries-21407/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/figures-of-several-centuries-21407/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/figures-of-several-centuries-21407/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/figures-of-several-centuries-21407/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/figures-of-several-centuries-21407/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/figures-of-several-centuries-21407/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/figures-of-several-centuries-21407/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/figures-of-several-centuries-21407/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/figures-of-several-centuries-21407/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/figures-of-several-centuries-21407/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/figures-of-several-centuries-21407/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/figures-of-several-centuries-21407/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/figures-of-several-centuries-21407/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/figures-of-several-centuries-21407/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/figures-of-several-centuries-21407/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/figures-of-several-centuries-21407/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/figures-of-several-centuries-21407/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/figures-of-several-centuries-21407/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/figures-of-several-centuries-21407/chapters/19/index.md)