Such symptoms are common to those that fast long, are solitary, given to contemplation, overmuch solitariness and meditation.

In despair consider, Causes, Subs. 2. The devil and his allurements, rigid preachers, that wound their consciences, melancholy, contemplation, solitariness.

In what humour constant Socrates did thus, I know not, or how he might be affected, but this would be pernicious to another man; what intricate business might so really possess him, I cannot easily guess; but this is otiosum otium, it is far otherwise with these men, according to Seneca, Omnia nobis mala solitudo persuadet; this solitude undoeth us, pugnat cum vita sociali; 'tis a destructive solitariness.

In secular occasions, what so pleasant as to be reading a book through a long winter evening, with a friend sitting bysay, a wifehe, or she, too, (if that be probable), reading another, without interruption, or oral communication?can there be no sympathy without the gabble of words?away with this inhuman, shy, single, shade-and-cavern-haunting solitariness.

This was in 1609, when he, at the age of fifty-five, was the idol of scientific men, and was in the enjoyment of an ample revenue, giving only sixty half-hours in the year to lectures, and allowed time to prosecute his studies in that "sweet solitariness" which all true scholars prize, and without which few great attainments are made.

He was inside a quadrilateral enclosure, apparently four hundred yards in length by two hundred and fifty in breadth, the walls throughout being the same mass of adobe work, fissured, jagged, gray, solemn, and in their utter solitariness sublime.

Throughout this scene there is a pleasing solitariness, that speaks peace to the mind, and invites the fancy to soar abroad, among the tranquil haunts of meditation.