...forever. 233 Journeying Westward: Political Writings; A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. IN FEBRUARY 1767, during the famous conversation between George III and the monarch of letters, "His...

...second, the equally important territorial limits of the state. As Samuel Johnson put the latter limits: How small of all that human hearts endure. That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.8 The state must both protect citizens against the marketplace but also, through its own self-restraint,...

...what Congress considers constitutional conduct. XII EPILOGUE Oliver Goldsmith noted some time ago: "How small, of all that human hearts endure, that part which laws or kings can cause or cure." 4 " However, recent events have demonstrated how disproportionate is the harm to the political fabric...

...daily life. In the words of the couplet he contributed to Oliver Goldsmith's poem 'The Traveller': 'How small of all that human hearts endure, /That part which laws or kings can cause or cure'.22 It would be a mistake to read these lines as electing private over public space, an inner...

...From the Shremad Bhagwat Puran (¥.18.9) Dame Barbara Shenfield, former Chairman of the WRVS 0 Lord, 'How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!' 1 put my trust in Thee. From The Traveller by Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74) Giles Shepard, manager of...

...benevolence; as Johnson wrote in his concluding lines to Oliver Goldsmith's poem, "The Traveller", "How small, of all that human hearts endure, / That part which laws or kings can cause or cure" (lines 429-30) . The true ironic twist of the last chapter, however, lies in the quiet change of heart...

...(Epicurean), 187 (Sceptic). 1 Kid.. 188, 189. 1 Cf. Johnson's lines in Goldsmith's Traveller, 1764: 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." « Cf. Hume, Essays,...

...Samuel Johnson, phrased it most prettily in the lines he added to Goldsmith's poem 'The Travellers': 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. (Of course, if the human...

...spacious reach of human experience beyond the cramped arena of politics. As Samuel Johnson put it, How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.26 In addition to making their modest contributions to immediate action, churches and synagogues...

...paradox of limits is captured in Johnson's small but significant addition to Goldsmith's The Traveller. "How small, of all that human hearts endure, / That part which laws or kings can cause or cure" (lines 429-3o).:1' Those limits mark the moral dimension of Johnson's thought, but also the legal framework....