 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings or tyrant laws restrain, How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ! Still to ourselves in every place consign'd Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 pages
...opposite theory, such as is well expressed in a well-known couplet, — " How small, of all that hnman hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ! " Far am I from agreeing in the opinion which the poet has so well expressed in those lines. They... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1853 - 350 pages
...pleasure and repose, To seek a good each government bestows ? * * * * * ***** How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure." GOLDSMITH'S TRAVELLEE. each ruination, and the country is still left, and so is the constitution, and... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 pages
...government, though terrors reign, Th«ugh tyrant kings or tyrant laws restrain, How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ; Still to ourselves in" every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find ; With secret course... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 348 pages
...government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings, or tyrant laws restrain, How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ! Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity v* e make or find : With secret course,... | |
 | 1854 - 576 pages
...the opposite theory, Such as is well expressed in a well-known couplet, — " How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ' " not true in politics. When I look to one country as compared to another, at the different epochs... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...rings with the force of a proverb, we learn that it was inserted by Dr. Johnson: How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Goldsmith lacks wit, and his use of abstractions and generalization; often seems to be the result of... | |
 | Richard John Neuhaus - 1986 - 300 pages
...politics is the truth about the limits of politics. As Doctor Johnson put it: How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find. Just because "our own... | |
 | Denis Mack Smith - 1989 - 436 pages
...national history are very much more than those that involve its head of state. How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. Only a small part it may be, but decisions of peace and war can change the lives of everyone, and some... | |
 | Stephen Blum, Philip V. Bohlman, Philip Vilas Bohlman, Daniel M. Neuman - 1993 - 336 pages
...East Indian, 1 o and West Indian Music L Ó in Felicity, Trinidad Helen Myers How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. — Samuel Johnson,... | |
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How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. 
