SOLITUDE:
BY
JOHN G. ZIMMERMAN.
With the Life of the Author.
IN TWO PARTS.
NEW-YORK:—C. WELLS.
56, Gold-street.
1840.
CONTENTS.
| CHAP. | PAGE. | |
| PART I. | ||
| Life of the author | 9 | |
| I. | Introduction, | 15 |
| II. | Influence of solitude upon the mind, | 19 |
| III. | Influence of solitude upon the heart, | 60 |
| IV. | General advantages of retirement, | 109 |
| V. | Advantages of solitude in exile, | 134 |
| VI. | Advantages of solitude in old age and on the bed of death, | 138 |
| PART II. | ||
| I. | Introduction, | 149 |
| II. | Of the motives to solitude, | 157 |
| III. | Disadvantages of solitude, | 185 |
| IV. | Influence of solitude on the imagination, | 200 |
| V. | Effects of solitude on a melancholy mind, | 216 |
| VI. | Influence of solitude on the passions, | 235 |
| VII. | Of the danger of idleness in solitude, | 274 |
| VIII. | Conclusion, | 279 |