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Hora 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.

ILLUINTE

SON

COLLECTED, ARRANGED AND EDE

JAMES ELMES,

Author of Memoirs of Sir Chriftopher Wren; Dictionary
of the Fine Arts; Lectures on Archi-
tecture; Architectural Jurifprudence, &c.: Editor of Sir
William Jones's Difcourfes; Pearls of
great price, &c. &c.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN & LONGMANS.

141. 2. 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.

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