...government bestows ? 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...

...bestows ? 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. 430 Still to ourselves, in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make...

...of those who maintain the opposite theory, such as is well expressed in a well-known couplet, — " How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings ean eause or cure ! " Far am I from agreeing in the opinion which the poet has so well expressed...

...very little purpose, and in general is but a useless vanity and self-inflicted vexation of spirit. - - 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...

...Why have I strayed from pleasure and repose, To seek a good each government bestows ? * * * * * ***** How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure." GOLDSMITH'S TRAVELLEE. each ruination, and the country is still left,...

...government bestows ? 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...

...bestows ? 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 v* e make...

...of those who maintain the opposite theory, Such as is well expressed in a well-known couplet, — " How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ' " not true in politics. When I look to one country as compared to another,...

...none the less so that the words expressing it are lines which Johnson contributed to the poem — " 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...

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