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RAG.780.099
25 Apr 1780:21,22 (273)
Thoughts on Solitude.
There is scarce any thing of which philosophers, moralists,
divines, and poets, have spoken with more rapture, than the
advantages and pleasures of solitude; . . . [1 column on
solitude]
I cannot better conclude this essay, than with an account of
a conversation between a Prelate of our Church and a
Carthusian Monk, near Vienna, as I find it related in a late
book of travels:
His Lordship having taken a walk one day to the top of a
mountain, a few miles from the city of Vienna, he heard a
bell ring at some little distance, and directing his way by
the sound, he came to a convent of Chartreaux, . . . [2
paragraphs on benefits and disadvantages of solitude]
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