Excerpt from Solitude Considered With Respect to Its Influence Upon the Mind and the Heart The term Solitude does not, I conceive, always 1m port a total abfence from the world. Sometimes it conveys to my mind the idea of dwelling m a convent, or a country village: fometimes I underflandit to mean the library of a man of learning and fometimes an oc caftonal retreat from the tumults of active life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.