Printed for J.Walker, Paternoster Row, and J. Harris,

1808.

Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe; Cuthell and Martin; Lack
ington, Allen, and Co.; J. Nunn; Darton and Harvey;
Otridge and Son; R. Lea; Scatcherd and Letterman;
Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; J Murray; J. Booker;
W. Stewart; J. Harding; J. Johnson; J. and J. Richard-
son; R. Faulder, and Son; F. C. and J. Rivington; E.
Jeffery; Lane, Newman, and Co.; Cadell and Davies; Wil-
kie and Robinson; Black, Parry, and Kingsbury; H. D.
Symonds; J. Asperne: R. Scholey; and J. Harris.

CONTENTS.

Life of the Author

PART I.

Chap. 1. Introduction

Page

V

1

7

2. Influence of Solitude upon the Mind

. 3. Influence of Solitude upon the Heart 62

.4. General Advantages of Retirement. 131

. 5. The Question, Whether it is easier to

live virtuously in Solitude, or in

the World? considered

. 6. Advantages of Solitude in Exile.

.7. Advantages of Solitude in Old Age;

and on the Bed of Death

165

. 174

180

PART II.

.1. Introduction

.2. Of the Motives to Solitude

.3. The Disadvantages of Solitude

.4. The Influence of Solitude on the

Imagination

197

210

255

. 5. The Effects of Solitude on a Melan-

choly Mind.

.6. The Influence of Solitude on the Pas-

sions

.7. Of the Danger of Idleness in Solitude 375

.8. The Conclusion

3499

638/2.65

66

(RECAP)

181234

391

382