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Title: Spare Hours

Author: John Brown

Release Date: November 4, 2008 [EBook #27153]

Language: English

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_HORAE SUBSECIVAE._

"_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
Bruyere'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 HOURS

BY JOHN BROWN, M. D.

If thou be a severe sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow
thee to be a competent judge.--IZAAK WALTON

BOSTON
TICKNOR AND FIELDS
1864

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by
TICKNOR 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

NOTE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION.

The author of "Rab and his Friends" scarcely needs an introduction to
American reade