HORÆ SUBSECIVE.

BY JOHN BROWN, M.D.

F.R.S.E.

“Ce fagotage de tant si diverses pièces, se faict en cette condition :
que je n'y mets la main, que lors qu'une trop lasche oysifvete me
presse.”—MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE.

& SECOND SERIES.

EDINBURGH:

EDMONSTON AND DOUGLAS.

1861.

“Who made you?” was asked of a small girl. She replied, “God made me that length," indicating with her two hands the ordinary size of a new-born infant; I growed the rest mysel”." This was before Topsy's time, and is wittier than even “'Spects I growed," and not less philosophical than Descartes' nihil with Leibnitz's nisi as its rider.

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THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE,

M.P. D.C.L. LL.D.

RECTOR of the University of Edinburgh,

from his

ASSESSOR.

ANDREW COVENTRY DICK,

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY,

AND

JOHN RUSKIN,

from their old

FRIEND.

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