Study. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

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Studious minds from Coke instruction draw, And learn to trace the labyrinths of law. Robert Noyes.—Distress.	1
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. Bacon.—Essay 50, of Studies.	2
The labour we delight in physics pain. Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act II. Scene 3. (Macbeth to Macduff after the murder of Duncan.)	3
At school I knew him—a sharp-witted youth, grave, thoughtful, and reserved among his mates; turning the hours of sport and food to labour; starving his body to inform his mind. Scott.—The Monastery, Chap. XXXI.	4
Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, The fields his study, nature was his book. Bloomfield.—Farmer’s Boy, Spring.	5
As soon as Phœbus’ rays inspect us, First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast; So on till foresaid god does set, I sometimes study, sometimes eat. Prior.—To Shepherd.	6
Six hours thou may’st give to sleep; just as many with equity to the laws; four thou shalt pray, and two thou may’st give to feasting; after which the remainder is to be given voluntarily to sacred songs. Coke.—On Lit. Book I. Cap. I.; and Sir William Jones.	7
1. I have not lived in the temple for nothing. 2. He slept there, and calls it studying the law. Murphy.—The Way to Keep Him, Act II.	8