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| American essays - 1867 - 1052 pages
...sleep, in taw's grave study six, Four spend in prayer, — the rest on nature fix." " КЛТИЕК, " Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, — and all to hea\ vu." Of Chief-Justice Parsons of Massachusetts, his son says: "It is literally true that for fifty... | |
| Charles Dickens - English literature - 1870 - 632 pages
...on nature fix. But Sir William Jones took a less ascetic view of life when he wrote his paraphrase, Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven ; Ten to the world allot, and all to Heaven. The robnst and ungallant old proverb has it, " Five hours for a man, six for a woman, and seven for... | |
| Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1870 - 556 pages
...ornbis, des opulisquo duns; Quod superest ultro sucris largire camoenis." Co. LITT. 64. " Six honrs to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to Heaven." The one hour here unappropriated is absorbed in the " all to Heaven." Sir Matthew Hale, another eminent... | |
| Baptists - 1870 - 300 pages
...eleven." Dr. Doddridge gives the safest counsel in regard to this matter : — " Seven hours to care, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven." Seven is often used to indicate a great number, as " Seven times as many," "-Seven score," and "Doubled... | |
| Oliver Optic - 1870 - 974 pages
...eleven." Sir William Jones gives the safest counsel n regard to this matter: — " Seven hours to care, to soothing slumber seven ; Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven." Seven is often used to indicate a great number; as, " seven times as many," " seven score," and "doubled... | |
| Luther Tracy Townsend - Church group work - 1871 - 254 pages
...six, Four spent in prayer, the rest on Nature fixed." Sir William Jones made the following. — " Six hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to Heaven." t Trench. Such are some of the fundamental elements of pulpit eloquence, and some of the steps to be... | |
| Book - Birthdays - 1872 - 326 pages
...age. In India, he wrote, on a small piece of paper, the following lines on the division of his time. Sir Edward Coke : Six hours in sleep, in law's grave...seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to Heaven. And the vital principle of devotedness to truth, he embodied in these lines, imitating the important... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Ode in Imitation of Aloaus. Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.1 JOHN LOGAN. 1748-1788. Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year. To the Cuchoa.... | |
| Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literary curiosa - 1874 - 876 pages
...wiser economist of the fleeting hours of life, amended the sentence in the following lines : — Steven hours to law, — to soothing slumber seven, — Ten to the world allot, — and all to heavcu. LIVING LIFE OVER AGAIN. Good Sir Thomas Browne says, Though I think no man can live well once... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...will, — O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. SIR WM. JONES. Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven. SIR WM. JONES. What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted ? MASSINGER :... | |
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