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| 1827 - 996 pages
...in law's grave studj six, Four spend in prayer, the rest on nature fix," he subjoined, " rather say, Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to Heaven. TAKING PHYSIC. David Hartley eat two hundred pounds weight of soap to cure the stone, but died of that... | |
| General reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 pages
...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 the Life of Sir Wm. Jones. Daily Studies for the long vacation of 1758. Morning — One... | |
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1831 - 570 pages
...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." birth, who lived entirely by literature, in short no authour by profession, ever rose in this country... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 600 pages
...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." It is not very clear what nature in the first version means; in the second Sir William has shortened... | |
| William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...a wiser economist of the fleeting hours of life, amended the sentiment in the following lines : — Seven hours to law — to soothing slumber seven; Ten to the world allot : and ALL to heaven. Keep an exact account of your daily expenses, and, at the end of every week, consider what you can... | |
| Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...hooks or advice, for every child is capable of the same thing, without any study at all. — Gray. Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to Heaven.— Sir William Jones. u So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1835 - 746 pages
...day." I will next briefly observe that Sir William Jones, in this his version of the lawyer's day — Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven ; Ten to the world allot, and all to Heaven ! has rendered the division of the day § more useful and more religious, as well as the couplet more... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1835 - 558 pages
...camteuis." t Boswell's Life of Johnson, iii. 398. ! Teignmouth's Life of Sir William Jones, p. 257. " Six hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to Heaven." See also, Law of Bailments, pp. 122, 123. was adopted unanimously by Congress, according to his original... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 366 pages
...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." It is not very clear what nature in the first version means ; in the second Sir William has shortened... | |
| John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pages
...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." 228. The old English Divines. That Johnson owed his excellence as a writer to the divines and others... | |
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