HORÆ SUBSECIVÆ.“A lady, resident in Devonshire, going into one of her parlors, discovered a young ass, who had found his way into the room, and carefully closed the door upon himself. He had evidently not been long in this situation before he had nibbled a part of Cicero’s Orations, and eaten nearly all the index of a folio edition of Seneca in Latin, a large part of a volume of La Bruyère’s Maxims in French, and several pages of Cecilia. He had done no other mischief whatever, and not a vestige remained of the leaves that he had devoured.”—Pierce Egan.“The treatment of the illustrious dead by the quick, often reminds me of the gravedigger in Hamlet, and the skull of poor defunct Yorick.”—W. H. B.“Multi ad sapientiam pervenire potuissent, nisi se jam pervenisse putassent.”“There’s nothing so amusing as human nature, but then you must have some one to laugh with.”SPARE HOURSByJOHN BROWN, M. D.If thou be a severe sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge.—Izaak WaltonBOSTONTICKNOR AND FIELDS1864Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, byTicknor and Fields,In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the District of MassachusettsRIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE:STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON
HORÆ SUBSECIVÆ.
“A lady, resident in Devonshire, going into one of her parlors, discovered a young ass, who had found his way into the room, and carefully closed the door upon himself. He had evidently not been long in this situation before he had nibbled a part of Cicero’s Orations, and eaten nearly all the index of a folio edition of Seneca in Latin, a large part of a volume of La Bruyère’s Maxims in French, and several pages of Cecilia. He had done no other mischief whatever, and not a vestige remained of the leaves that he had devoured.”—Pierce Egan.
“The treatment of the illustrious dead by the quick, often reminds me of the gravedigger in Hamlet, and the skull of poor defunct Yorick.”—W. H. B.
“Multi ad sapientiam pervenire potuissent, nisi se jam pervenisse putassent.”
“There’s nothing so amusing as human nature, but then you must have some one to laugh with.”
SPARE HOURSByJOHN BROWN, M. D.If thou be a severe sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge.—Izaak WaltonBOSTONTICKNOR AND FIELDS1864
ByJOHN BROWN, M. D.
If thou be a severe sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge.—Izaak Walton
BOSTONTICKNOR AND FIELDS1864
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, byTicknor and Fields,In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the District of MassachusettsRIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE:STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, byTicknor and Fields,In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts
RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE:STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON