id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt aeu.ark:-13960-t2g74d398 nan Pennsylvania Hermit A Narrative Of The Most Extraordinary Life Of Amos Wilson, Who Expired In A Cave In The Neighbourhood Of Harrisburgh, (penn.) After Having Therein Lived In Solitary Retirement For The Space Of Nineteen Years, In Consequence Of The Ignominious Death Of His Sister 1840.0 .txt text/plain 8054 410 75 The true felicity of life is to be free from perturbations; to understand our duty towards God and man ; to enjoy the pre- sent, without any anxious dependence on the future. My situation has no doubt been pronounced unhappy and miserable by many of my fellow-beings ; but secluded as I have been from the so- ciety of man, depriving myself of the superfluities of life, I solemnly declare that I have enjoyed more real happiness in retirement than what all the riches and superfluities of this world could have afforded me. cache/aeu.ark:-13960-t2g74d398.txt txt/aeu.ark:-13960-t2g74d398.txt