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" How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure! "
The works of Hannah More, with a memoir and notes - Page 359
by Hannah More - 1834
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Miscellaneous Works of Lord Macaulay, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 640 pages
...Goldsmith's Traveller express what seems to have been his deliberate judgment : " How small, of nil 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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The Quarterly Review, Volume 151

1881 - 596 pages
...administered is best.' There is another, equally fallacious, which includes the best of his philosophy : — ' How small of all that human hearts endure That part which kings or laws can cause or euro.' The powers of cure may be limited. But is the part of human suffering, which kings or laws can...
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English Synonymes Explained: In Alphabetical Order ; with Copious ...

George Crabb - 1882 - 876 pages
...trial. There is something disingenuous and immoral in the being able to btar such n sight. TATLEK. How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure ! GOLDSMITH. To bear and endure signify to receive becomingly the weight of what befalls ourselves...
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The Coming Democracy

George Harwood - 1882 - 412 pages
...over the world, spell out the lesson condensed in the lines added by Johnson to Goldsmith's poem — " How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure ! " And the lives of politicians — even of the most renowned — tell the same story. It is not the...
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1882 - 878 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...
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Critical and historical essays

Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883 - 874 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 слп cause cr cure ! " He had previously put expressions very similar into the mouth of Rasselas....
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Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review

Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1883 - 1254 pages
...inserted in Goldsmith's Traveller express what seems to have been his deliberate judgment: ' How email, of all that human hearts endure. That part which kings or laws oui ctuse or cure 1 " He had previously put expressions very similar into the month of Rasselas It...
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Occasional Papers and Addresses

Thomas O'Hagan Baron O'Hagan - 1884 - 446 pages
...legislation of the time should be suited to its wants. There is truth in the often-quoted lines,—- How small, of all that human hearts endure. That part which kings or laws can cause or cure ! And we are sometimes tempted, by the freaks of bungling legislators, to wish that Parliament might...
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Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science

National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - 1885 - 846 pages
...politicians, are far less vital to the nation at large than the statesmanlike handling of social questions. ' How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure.' These lines are not only true in themselves, but true also as the expression of what is higher behind,...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life

James Boswell - 1887 - 500 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 2 ; With secret course,...
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