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Solitude

Johann Georg Zimmermann

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Half of Europe read Zimmermann on solitude; kings consulted him about it. His famous treatise weighs the influence of occasional retirement upon the mind and heart, both the healing powers of being alone and its dangers when indulged too far. The eighteenth century's definitive word on withdrawing from the crowd. Solitude, prescribed in careful doses.

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  1. 1SOLITUDE:
  2. 2CONTENTS.
  3. 3PREFACE.
  4. 4LIFE OF ZIMMERMAN.
  5. 5SOLITUDE; OR THE INFLUENCE OF OCCASIONAL RETIREMENT UPON THE MIND AND HEART.
  6. 6CHAPTER I. Introduction.
  7. 7CHAPTER II. The influence of solitude upon the mind.
  8. 8CHAPTER III. Influence of Solitude upon the Heart.
  9. 9CHAPTER IV. The General Advantages of Retirement.
  10. 10CHAPTER V. Advantages of solitude in exile.
  11. 11CHAPTER VI. Advantages of solitude in old age; and on the bed of death.
  12. 12SOLITUDE. PART II. THE PERNICIOUS INFLUENCE OF A TOTAL SECLUSION FROM SOCIETY UPON THE MIND AND THE HEART.
  13. 13CHAPTER I. Introduction.
  14. 14CHAPTER II. Of the motives to solitude.
  15. 15CHAPTER III. The disadvantages of solitude.
  16. 16CHAPTER IV. The influence of solitude on the imagination.
  17. 17CHAPTER V. The effects of solitude on a melancholy mind.
  18. 18CHAPTER VI. The influence of solitude on the passions.

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