| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 1102 pages
...which he 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 lawa can cause or cure!" He had previously put expressions very similar into the mouth of Rasselas.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 752 pages
...whicnne inserted in Goldsmith's Traveller express what seems to have been his deliberate judgment : — the hills, while it is still He had previously put expressions very simi lar into the mouth of Rasselas. It is amusing to contrast... | |
| Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown - 1862 - 592 pages
...inappreciably great for evil or for good. It is of individuals, not States, that Goldsmith exclaims, " How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure ! " The joy and sorrow, the greatness and decline, of nations, are to a vast extent the precise work of kings... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 704 pages
...which he 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 Easselas. It is amusing to contrast... | |
| Henry Charles Lea - 1866 - 412 pages
...quotations are so essentially false, or reveal so narrow a view of life as the often cited lines — "How small, of all that human hearts endure, . That part which kings or laws can cause or cure !" Since the origin of society, each unit of our race has struggled on in his allotted path, through... | |
| Committee of Arrangements Bangor - 1869 - 206 pages
...such moments we feel the truth of the lines, which the experience of life year by year confirms, " How small of all that human hearts endure That part, which kings or laws ean cause or eure." But Bangor has a public, as well as private-«-an outward, as well as inward history.... | |
| Bangor (Me.) - 1870 - 200 pages
...such moments we feel the truth of the lines, which the experience of life year by year confirms, " How small of all that human hearts endure That part, which kings or laws can cause or cure." But Bangor has a public, as well as private — an outward, as well as inward history. That history,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 704 pages
...which he 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... | |
| Frederick Arnold - 1873 - 384 pages
...Johnson intercalated a well-known passage in Goldsmith's "Traveller," commencing with the lines, " How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure !" There is in these lines that general amount of truth and error which is ordinarily found in such... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 1090 pages
...inserted in Goldsmith's Traveller express what seems to have been his deliberate judgment : " 1 low 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... | |
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