Solitude [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… complementary of one another. Concepts > Feelings & Emotions Keywords Conversation Emotions Gender Melancholy Politeness Privacy Religion In 1711, Joseph Addison spoke of his vision for his new periodical, The Spectator . In his desire to … to us – as a state of being either temporarily or permanently alone – entered the English vocabulary. 4 2 . Diana Webb, Privacy and Solitude in the Middle Ages (London & New York: Continuum, 2007), p. xv. 3 . Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of … the world was harmful and ‘one might only be able to constitute oneself as a substantial character in retirement and privacy’. 12 The French philosopher Michel de Montaigne, also spoke of how time spent alone represented not retreat, but …
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