translate English to French: They will be a delight to him at an age and in circumstances when the heart finds so great a charm in every kind of beauty which affects it. Picture to yourself on the one hand Emile, on the other some young rascal from college, reading the fourth book of the Æneid or Tibullus, or the Banquet of Plato: what a difference between them!
[1209:] On voit bien que ce n’est pas l’Académie des inscriptions qui a composé celle-là.