 | Henry Charles Lea - 1866 - 412 sidor
...quotations are so essentially false, or reveal so narrow a view of life as the often cited lines — "How small, of all that human hearts endure, . That part which kings or laws can cause or cure !" Since the origin of society, each unit of our race has struggled on in his allotted path, through... | |
 | Committee of Arrangements Bangor - 1869 - 206 sidor
...such moments we feel the truth of the lines, which the experience of life year by year confirms, " How small of all that human hearts endure That part, which kings or laws ean cause or eure." But Bangor has a public, as well as private-«-an outward, as well as inward history.... | |
 | Bangor (Me.) - 1870 - 200 sidor
...such moments we feel the truth of the lines, which the experience of life year by year confirms, " How small of all that human hearts endure That part, which kings or laws can cause or cure." But Bangor has a public, as well as private — an outward, as well as inward history. That history,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 704 sidor
...which he inserted in Goldsmith's Traveller express what seems to have been his deliberate judgment : " How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure ! " He had previously put expressions very similar into the mouth of Rasselas. It is amusing to contrast... | |
 | Frederick Arnold - 1873 - 384 sidor
...Johnson intercalated a well-known passage in Goldsmith's "Traveller," commencing with the lines, " How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure !" There is in these lines that general amount of truth and error which is ordinarily found in such... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 1090 sidor
...inserted in Goldsmith's Traveller express what seems to have been his deliberate judgment : " 1 low small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure! " He had previously put expressions very similar into the mouth of Rasselas. It is amusing to contrast... | |
 | 1886 - 704 sidor
...English moralist and lexicographer, as embodying the result of the experience of mankind on this subject. "How small, of all that human hearts endure. That part which kings or laws can cause or cure." I have been at some pains to collect and examine the legislation of the different States of the Union... | |
 | 1874 - 864 sidor
...type of statesman. He legislated not so much for the present as for the future. To him, those lines— How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure! were utterly and cruelly false. From his own experience, he too well knew that the law-giver and the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 sidor
...concluding ten lines, except the last couplet but one, which I distinguish by the Italick character : " How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure. Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find ; with supreme delight... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 328 sidor
...he inserted in Goldsmith's Traveller express what seems to have been his deliberate judgment — " How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure ! " He had previously put expressions very similar into the mouth of Rasselas. It is amusing to contrast... | |
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How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure! 
