| Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1853 - 350 sidor
...Why have I strayed from 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... | |
| 1854 - 652 sidor
...the artist's hand. He takes you with him in every step of his tour ; you "Bun the gvcat circle, aiid are still at home." And the moral he draws from the...small, of all that human hearts endure. That part which lawsor kings cau cause or cure ! Still to ourselves in every place consigu'd, Our own felicity we make... | |
| William Collins - 1854 - 430 sidor
...government bestows ? In every government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant-kings or tyrant-laws restrain, How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part...cause or cure ! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find: With secret course, which no loud storms annoy Glides... | |
| George Croly - 1854 - 426 sidor
...government bestows? In every government, though terrors reign, Th«ugh tyrant kings or tyrant laws restrain, How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part...cause or cure ; Still to ourselves in" every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find ; With secret course which no loud storms annoy, Glides... | |
| 1854 - 576 sidor
...of those who maintain 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 sidor
...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... | |
| Denis Mack Smith - 1989 - 436 sidor
...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... | |
| Stephen Blum, Philip V. Bohlman, Philip Vilas Bohlman, Daniel M. Neuman - 1993 - 336 sidor
...Reproduction and Renewal Indian, 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...can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. — Samuel Johnson, Lines Added to Goldsmith's Traveller... | |
| Peter James Stanlis - 1958 - 292 sidor
...limited. He shared this conviction with his friend Samuel Johnson, who summarized this theme in a couplet: How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure."1 To Burke the personal, domestic, spiritual, moral, and psychological dimensions of human existence... | |
| Judith N. Shklar - 1990 - 160 sidor
...scope of primary justice radically. Dr. Johnson provided the rationale for that in his famous couplet, "How small of all that human hearts endure / That part which laws and kings can cause or cure." That sentiment would gain greater force if we admitted that it was only... | |
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