 | Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 670 pages
...the laws the homage of their respect, through the medium of the effects which they naturally produce. How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure. It is, in fact, the g^peral diffufion of property, a security for what we pofless, and, above all,... | |
 | 1831 - 652 pages
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...concluding ten lines, except the last couplet but one, which I distinguish by the ItaJick 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 ; 1 It is remarkable... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pages
...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 secret... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...concluding ten lines, except the last couplet but one, which I distinguish by the Italic character : " How small of all that human hearts endure, " That part which kings or laws can canse or cure. " Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, " Our own felicity we make or find ;... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pages
...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 consjgn'd, Our own felicity we make or find ; With secret course,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 472 pages
...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 secret course... | |
 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1824 - 534 pages
...fact, however, that in every age persons have called aloud for better laws and more liberty; yet " How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings, or laws, can cause or cure." If we consult the catalogue of complaints at the present period it would appear, that so far from our... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 430 pages
...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 secret course,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1827 - 622 pages
...ten lines, except the last couplet but one, which I distinguish by the Italic character: "How imall ish a Preface and Life to any poet the booksellers pleased. I asked him if he wou Still to ourselves in every place consign'd. Our own felicity we make or find ; With secret course,... | |
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How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure! 
