 | 1831 - 652 pages
...translated from some old Latin lines, the other is original. The former runs thus : < Six hours to sleep, to law's grave study six, Four' spend in prayer, the rest on nature fix.' ' Rather,' says Sir William Jones, ' Six hours to law, to soothing slumbers seven, Ten to the world allot, and... | |
 | John Shore Baron Teignmouth - Lawyers Great Britain Biography - 1806 - 618 pages
...India, but at what period is not known, nor indeed of any consequence : Sir EDWARD COKE, Six hours an sleep, in law's grave study six, Four spend in prayer,...Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to tbe world allot, and all to Heaven. 50 If we sometimes suffer the humiliation, of seeing great talents... | |
 | John Shore Baron Teignmouth - India - 1806 - 636 pages
...they were written by him in India, but at what period is not known, nor indeed of any consequence : Sir EDWARD COKE, Six hours in sleep, in law's grave...six, Four spend in prayer, — the rest on nature fix : BATHER, Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to Heaven.... | |
 | William Richards - 1812 - 676 pages
...William Jones, is supposed to be expressive o tl.e. manner in which he distributed, or employed his (imc. "Six hours in sleep, in Law's grave study Six, Four spend in prayer, the rest on nature !;>;." For which Sir William Jones is said to have substituted the following;, " Six hours to law,... | |
 | Thomas Zouch, Francis Wrangham - Theology - 1820 - 558 pages
...law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world, &c. Xwhicli is itself founded upon Sir Edward Coke's Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six ; Four spend in prayer — the rest on nature fix.) and will recall to the reader's recollection Dr. Doddridge's Epigram tijiou his family-motto (Gum vvvwnus,... | |
 | Christian life - 1883 - 404 pages
...gifted man. Like great men he was full of work ; and this is what he wrote about division of time — " Six hours in sleep, in Law's grave study six, Four spend in prayers, the rest on nature fix." Sir William Jones altered the lines to these — " Seven hours to... | |
 | General reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 pages
...India, but at what period is unknown, nor is it indeed of any consequence : Sir Edward Coke says — Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six, Four...spend in prayer — the rest on nature fix. Rather, Six hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven. Memoirs of... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1831 - 570 pages
...ultrii sacris largire Camaenis." Of these Sir William Jones made two versions : " Six hours to sleep, to law's grave study six ; Four spend in prayer — the rest on nature fix :" rather (he adds), " Six hours to law, to soothing slumber seven ; Ten to the world allot, and all to Heaven."... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 600 pages
...ultro sacris largire Cameenis." Of these Sir William Jones made two versions : " Six hours to sleep, to law's grave study six; Four spend in prayer — the rest on nature fix :" rather (he adds), " Six hours to law, to soothing slumber seven; Ten to the world allot, and all to Heaven."... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 366 pages
...sacris largire Camsmis." ', Of these Sir William Jones made two versions : — " Six hours to sleep, to law's grave study six : Four spend in prayer — the rest on nature fix : " rather (he adds), " Six hours to law. to soothing slumber seven ; Ten to the world allot, and all to Heaven."... | |
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Six hours to sleep, to law's grave study six, Four spend in prayer, the rest on nature fix. 
