WRITTEN ORIGINALLY

BY J. G. ZIMMERMAN.

To which are added,

THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR;
NOTES HISTORICAL AND EXPLANATORY;

A COPIOUS INDEX; AND

SEVEN BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVINGS BY RIDLEY.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE ASSOCIATED BOOKSELLERS,
VERNOR AND HOOD, J. CUTHELL, J. WALKER, LACKINGTON,
ALLEN, AND CO. J. NUNN, OGILVY AND SON, DARTON AND
HARVEY, W. OTRIDGE AND SON, AND R. LEA.

1798.

CONTENTS.

LIFE of the Author

CHAP. I. Introduction

CHAP. II. Influence of Solitude on the Mind

CHAP. III. Influence of Solitude upon the

Heart

CHAP. IV. The general Advantages of Re-

tirement

CHAP. V. The Queftion, Whether it is

eafier to live virtuously in Solitude or

in the World? confidered

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CHAP. VI. The Advantages of Solitude in

Exile

CHAP. VII. The Advantages of Solitude in

Old Age; and on the Bed of Death.. 289

264

279

DIRECTIONS FOR PLACING THE PLATES.

HEAD of the Author to front the Title.

Inftruction

Obferve the Shepherd

Rouffeau contemplating the wild Beauties of

Switzerland....

....

Curius refusing the Samnite's Gold ......
The Death of Addifon

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