His tales in rhyme, though often objectionable in their themes, are excellent specimens of narrative skill ; and as an epigrammatist he is unrivalled in English.

Translations into English, either in whole or in part, were made by John Vicars in Epigrams of that most wittie and worthie epigrammatist Mr. Iohn Owen, Gentleman ( 1619 ); by Thomas Pecke, in his Parnassi Puerperium ( 1659 ); and by Thomas Harvey in The Latine epigrams of John Owen ( 1677 ), which is the most complete.

Taken as a whole, it is somewhat conventional ; only the description of the minor forms of life, especially of the animals, reveals the skill of the epigrammatist and nature-lover's gift of affectionate observation.

The Wall Street Journal described him in a 1992 profile as " history's only full time, professional published epigrammatist.

* 1689 – Alexis Piron, French epigrammatist and dramatist ( d. 1773 )

Alexis Piron ( July 9, 1689 – January 21, 1773 ) was a French epigrammatist and dramatist.

* January 21-Alexis Piron, dramatist and epigrammatist ( born 1689 )

* July 9-Alexis Piron, French epigrammatist ( died 1773 )

The Greek epigrammatist Antipater of Thessalonica tells of an advanced overshot wheel mill around 20 BC / 10 AD.

In the age of the emperor Tiberius ( or Trajan, according to others ) the work of Meleager was continued by another epigrammatist, Philippus of Thessalonica, who first employed the term anthology.

Rivarol was the foremost journalist, commentator and epigrammatist among that faction of aristocrats which was most uncompromisingly reactionary: he heaped scorn upon republicanism and virulently defended the ancien regime.

* John Owen ( epigrammatist ) ( c. 1564 – 1622 ), Welsh epigrammatist

* Macedonius of Thessalonica ( c. 500-560 ), epigrammatist of Greek Anthology

Some of it consisted of original short poems by Hayman, and some of translations, both of Latin poems by John Owen ( epigrammatist ) and of French prose by Rabelais.

As an author he was a clever essayist and epigrammatist.

Two of these were already known and had been attributed by the 12th-century AD Byzantine scholar John Tzetzes to the Hellenistic epigrammatist Posidippus of Pella, a Macedonian who spent his literary career in Alexandria.

Abraham Gotthelf Kästner was a German mathematician and epigrammatist.

It was apparently also a source of millstones used in some of the earliest watermills, being referred to by epigrammatist Antipater of Thessalonica in the 1st century BC.

John Owen ( c. 1564c. 1622 / 1628 ) was a Welsh epigrammatist, most known for his Latin epigrams, collected in his Epigrammata.

La Torre, the Spanish epigrammatist, owed much to Owen, and translated his works into Spanish in 1674.

He had no public ambition ; except in correspondence, and as an epigrammatist, he was no writer, but he furnished ideas to those who wrote.

Asclepiades of Samos was an ancient Greek epigrammatist and lyric poet.

Friedrich Freiherr von Logau ( January 1605 – July 24, 1655 ), German epigrammatist, was born at Brockut, near Nimptsch, in Silesia in 1605.

Rousseau is so persuasive that Voltaire is almost convinced that he should burn his books, too.

There is one statement by Derrida which he regarded as the axial statement of his whole essay on Rousseau ( part of the highly influential Of Grammatology, 1967 ), and which is perhaps his most quoted and famous statement ever.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau would argue, however, that his concept of " general will " in the " social contract " is not the simple collection of individual wills and precisely furthers the interests of the individual ( the constraint of law itself would be beneficial for the individual, as the lack of respect for the law necessarily entails, in Rousseau's eyes, a form of ignorance and submission to one's passions instead of the preferred autonomy of reason ).

When team members individually and collectively commit to team goals, team effectiveness is increased and is a function of increased supportive team behaviors ( Aube & Rousseau, 2005 ).

" A Genevan watchmaker ," Rousseau wrote, " is a man who can be introduced anywhere ; a Parisian watchmaker is only fit to talk about watches.

In contrast to the optimistic view of other Enlightenment figures, for Rousseau, progress has been inimical to the well-being of humanity, that is, unless it can be counteracted by the cultivation of civic morality and duty.

In the last chapter of the Social Contract, Rousseau would ask " What is to be done?

This is clear from the Discourse on Political Economy, where Rousseau emphasizes that the general will exists to protect individuals against the mass, not to require them to be sacrificed to it.

Rousseau ’ s philosophy of education is not concerned with particular techniques of imparting information and concepts, but rather with developing the pupil ’ s character and moral sense, so that he may learn to practice self-mastery and remain virtuous even in the unnatural and imperfect society in which he will have to live.

The hypothetical boy, Émile, is to be raised in the countryside, which, Rousseau believes, is a more natural and healthy environment than the city, under the guardianship of a tutor who will guide him through various learning experiences arranged by the tutor.

John Darling's 1994 book Child-Centered Education and its Critics argues that the history of modern educational theory is a series of footnotes to Rousseau, a development he regards as bad.

But he repudiated the doctrine of original sin, which plays so large a part in Calvinism ( in Émile, Rousseau writes " there is no original perversity in the human heart ").

The scene is drawn from a footnote to the Letter to M. D ' Alembert on Spectacles | Letter to d ' Alembert where Rousseau recalls witnessing the popular celebrations following the exercises of the St Gervais regiment.

Rousseau, a writer of great force and vivacity, is totally destitute of taste in any sense of the word.

To Rousseau we owe the invention of the concept of a " civil religion ", one of whose key tenets is religious toleration.

Yet despite their mutual insistence on the self-evidence that " all men are created equal ", their insistence that the citizens of a republic be educated at public expense, and the evident parallel between the concepts of the " general welfare " and Rousseau's " general will ", some scholars maintain there is little to suggest that Rousseau had that much effect on Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers.

Barzun states that, contrary to myth, Rousseau was no primitivist ; for him: The model man is the independent farmer, free of superiors and self-governing.

is: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Locke's theory of mind is often cited as the origin of modern conceptions of identity and the self, figuring prominently in the work of later philosophers such as Hume, Rousseau and Kant.

The importance of Machiavelli's influence is notable in many important figures in this endeavor, for example Bodin, Francis Bacon, Algernon Sidney, Harrington, John Milton, Spinoza, Rousseau, Hume, Edward Gibbon, and Adam Smith.