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And sovereign law, that state's collected will,
O'er thrones and globes elate,
Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
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Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven,
Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.[21]
[Note 21: "Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six, Four spend
in prayer, the rest on nature fix."--_Sir Edward Coke_.]
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CAPTAIN CHARLES MORRIS.
--1832.
_Billy Pitt and the Farmer_.
Solid men of Boston, make no long orations;
Solid men of Boston, drink no deep potations.
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JOHN TRUMBULL.
1750-1881.
_McFingal_. Canto i. Line 67.
But optics sharp it needs, I ween,
To see what is not to be seen.
Canto iii. Line 489.
No man e'er felt the halter draw,
With good opinion of the law.
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RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN
1751-1816.
_The Rivals_. Act v. Sc. 3.
As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
* * * * *
_The Critic_. Act ii. Sc. 1.
My valor is certainly going! it is sneaking
off! I feel it oozing out as it were at the pain,
of my hands.
Act ii. Sc. 2.
Where they do agree, their unanimity is
wonderful.
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