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The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With an Account ... - Page 51
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1791
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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1831 - 762 pages
...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...
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Advice in the Pursuits of Literature, Containing Historical, Biographical ...

Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1832 - 312 pages
...In every government though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings, or tyrant laws restrain, 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...
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Letters for the press

Francis Roscommon (pseud.) - 1832 - 300 pages
...In every government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings or tyrant laws restrain, 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...
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The Liberal Preacher, Volumes 3-4

Thomas Russell Sullivan, David Reed - Sermons - 1833 - 412 pages
...little purpose, and in general is but a useless vanity and selfmflicted vexation of spirit. 'How email of all that human hearts endure, That part, which laws or kings can cause or cur*. Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find; With...
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The Infirmities of Genius, Volume 1

Richard Robert Madden - Genius - 1833 - 214 pages
...from them we are to expect that happiness which in a great degree depends upon ourselves. " 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." In fact,...
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The Infirmities of Genius Illustrated by Referring the Anomalies ..., Volume 1

Richard Robert Madden - Authors, English - 1833 - 164 pages
...them we are to expect that happiness which in a great degree depends upon ourselves. i " 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." In fact,...
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The Infirmities of Genius Illustrated by Referring the Anomalies ..., Volume 1

Richard Robert Madden - Genius - 1833 - 214 pages
...from them we are to expect that happiness which in a great degree depends upon ourselves. " 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." . In...
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The Border Magazine, Volume 2

English literature - 1833 - 372 pages
..." In every government though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings or tyrant laws restrain, 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. AVith...
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The Rationale of Political Representation

Samuel Bailey - Great Britain - 1835 - 464 pages
...t In every government though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings or tyrant laws restrain, How small of all that human hearts endure That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ! wrong in under-rating the influence of government on private happiness, because he...
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Introductory Discourse, and the Lectures Delivered Before the ..., Volume 5

American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1835 - 318 pages
..." In every government though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings and tyrant laws restrain, How small of all, that human hearts endure, That part, which laws or kings can cause or cure." If this were true, it would, indeed, be of very little consequence to busy ourselves...
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