...sleep, to law's grave study six, Four spend in prayer, the rest on nature fix. Or rather, he says : Six hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven. The lord keeper Williams slept but three hours in the twenty-four. Roger North considered four hours...

...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." Ф PAYSON A MAN OF PRAYER. As a Preacher, Payson was eminently prayerful. It was manifest in private...

...lines of Coke, and then adopted them as the rule for the regulation of his time and studies : — " Six hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven." " Let not the young and arduous adventurer in the path of knowledge imagine that by the omission of...

...hours in sleep, in law's grave study six, Four hours 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." ' Here we gain a support for our emendation, in the similar transfer of the preposition to from the...

...briefly observe that Sir William Jones, in this his version of the lawyer's day, — ' Seven haul's 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...

...a fool. Or perhaps, Harry, you might like to live by Sir William Jones's rule: ' Six hours to read, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot— and all to Heaven.' " THE ILLUMINATION. A neighbour's house he 'd slyly pass, And throw a stone to break the glass. Oira...

...translation or adaptation that M. GODDCHACX quotes is by Sir William Jones, who capped it with — Seven hours to law, to soothing .slumber seven. Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven. Both epigrams were printed by Lord Teignmouth in his ' Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence...

...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. EEPKOACH. Let lying Fame her blasting trumpet blow, If I no evil nor occasion know : 'Tis but a blast...

...invested Sir Win. Jones's emendation of his own English translation. He unquestionably wrote : — " &mn hours to law, to soothing slumber seven ; Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven." Wilson Croker, as SR correctly notices, alters ' seven '' into " six," upon which he founds a charge...

...of his time, Sir William, while in India, wrote on a small piece of paper the following lines : — [Sir Edward Coke.] Six hours in sleep, in law's grave...seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven. The poems of Sir William Jones comprise two small volumes, and consist of a few original pieces in...