Reading, the ingenious inventor suggested, would be an agreeable mode of passing the time.
He mentioned, in his written account of his contrivance, various works that might amuse the weary hour.

I remember only three,--Don Quixote, Tom Jones, and WATTS ON THE MIND.
It is not generally understood that Cicero's essay was delivered as a lyceum lecture, (concio popularis,) at the Temple of Mercury.
The journals (papyri) of the day ("Tempora Quotidiana,"-- "Tribuinus Quirinalis,"-- "Praeco Romanus," and the rest) gave abstracts of it, one of which I have translated and modernized, as being a substitute for the analysis I intended to make.
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