 | 1842 - 544 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - 332 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1844 - 738 pages
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...centres 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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 276 pages
...bestows ? In every government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant-kings or tyrant-laws restrain, 428 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. With secret course,... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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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How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. 
