| 1826 - 300 pages
...in the mind. Why have 1 stray'd from pleasure and repose, To seek a good each government bestows ? In every government, though terrors reign, Though...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,... | |
| Thomas Brown - 1826 - 522 pages
...degree, as Goldsmith says, consigned to ourselves, amidst all the varieties of social institutions . " In every government, though terrors reign, Though...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,... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1875 - 1116 pages
...idlo belief that all of this — or even that much of it — can bo effected by legisla. tion — " How small, of all that human hearts endure That part which laws or Kings can cause or euro ! " Something, indeed, may be done ; and if, when the history of the Session now opening comes... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...in the mind : Why have I stray'd from pleasure and repose, To seek a good each government bestows? e he pretend Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course,... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...in the mind ; Why have I stray'd, from pleasure and repose, To seek a good each government bestows ? In every government, though terrors reign, Though...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,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...in the mind ; Why have I strayed from pleasure and repose, To seek a good each government bestows ? would be to his living body. There Siill to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find; With secret course,... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...centres in the mind! Why have I stray'd from pleasure and repose, To aeek a good each government bestows? In every government, though terrors reign, Though...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,... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1831 - 762 pages
...in a well-known couplet, which I remember to have been once quoted by the late Lord Liverpool — " How small, of all that human 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 are... | |
| Samuel Bailey - 1831 - 254 pages
...feeble influence on the happiness of private life. He may be ready to exclaim with the poet, " Mow small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure !"* And, extending the remark to moral science, conclude, that beyond the circle of common knowledge... | |
| Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 304 pages
...Vain, very vain, my weary 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...that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kir%s can cause or cure ! Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or... | |
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