 | 1842 - 544 pagina’s
...guide their movements is devoid of light? When will they practically understand that great truth — " How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ! " But it will be said that we, so far from acting on our own principles as just laid down, have pressed... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1843 - 550 pagina’s
...to these, and may say what they like on the innumerable other themes of speculation and discourse. " How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure." There is no great hardship in the case apparently, when viewed in this light ; but men go to war about... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1843 - 556 pagina’s
...to these, and may say what they like on the innumerable other themes of speculation and discourse. " How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure." There is no great hardship in the case apparently^ when viewed in this light ; but men go to war about... | |
 | 1844 - 738 pagina’s
...transition ; for, though we do not subseribe without qualification to the sentiment of the poet — How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure — because we believe that governments and their institutions may be made to hear remedially on all... | |
 | 1844 - 332 pagina’s
...1814. FELICITY. VAIH, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centres in the mind! 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 - 1845 - 550 pagina’s
...search to find That bliss which only centres in the mind: Why have I stray'd from pleasure and repose, To seek a good each government bestows? In every government,...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,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pagina’s
...search to find That bliss which only centres in the mind : Why have I strayed, from pleasure and repose, To seek a good each government bestows ? In every...Though tyrant kings, or tyrant laws restrain, How small,1 of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. Still to... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pagina’s
...find a couplet that 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 pagina’s
...important truths about 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 pagina’s
...that the truths about 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... | |
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In every 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. 
