Hore Vaciva.

A Thought-Book.

"THEY are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world." SHAKESPEARE.

"THOUGHTS take up no room. When they are right, they afford a portable pleasure, which one may travel with, without any trouble or incumbrance." JEREMY COLLIER.

A Thought-Book

OF THE WISE SPIRITS OF ALL AGES AND ALL
COUNTRIES, FIT FOR ALL MEN

AND ALL HOURS.

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NUS TID

ILLUINEA

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COLLECTED, ARRANGED AND EDE

JAMES ELMES,

Author of Memoirs of Sir Chriftopher Wren; Dictionary
of the Fine Arts; Lectures on Archi-

tecture; Architectural Jurisprudence, &c.: Editor of Sir
William Jones's Discourses; Pearls of
great price, &c. &c.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN & LONGMANS.

1851.

141. d. 127.

TO THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE

HENRY LORD BROUGHAM,

&c., &c., &c.,

THE SCHOOLMASTER OF HIS AGE,

AND ONE OF THE MOST THOUGHTFUL MEN

OF HIS DAY;

THE FOLLOWING COLLECTION OF

THOUGHTS AND MAXIMS

ARE RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.