THE PHILOLOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL WORKS OF 1 CHARLES BUTLER, ESQUIRE, OF LINCOLN'S INN. IN FIVE VOLUMES. VOL. I. CONTAINING HORÆ BIBLIC Æ. LONDON: PRINTED FOR W. CLARKE & SONS, PORTUGAL-STREET, LINCOLN'S-INN. 1817. NEW YORK Quare quis tandem me reprehendat, si quantum cæteris ad festos dies ludorum celebrandos, quantum ad alias voluptates, et ad ipsam requiem, animi et corporis conceditur temporis: quantum alii tempestivis conviviis quantum aleæ, quantum pilæ, tantum mihi egomet, ad hæc studia reco lenda, sumpsero. CIC. PRO ARCHIA. Le changement d'etude est toujours un delassement pour moi. Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, ☆ D'AGUESSEAU. ΤΟ HIS FRIEND, SIR JAMES GRAHAM, BART. THESE WORKS, THE EMPLOYMENT, DURING MANY YEARS, OF BITS AND SCRAPS OF TIME, STOLEN FROM THE UNCEASING DUTIES OF A LABORIOUS AND NEVER-NEGLECTED PROFESSION, AND WHICH HE FOUND IT A GREATER RELAXATION TO EMPLOY IN THIS, THAN IN ANY OTHER MANNER, |