...Johnson's very pedestrian poetry which have won a sort of immortality : How, small of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure. Still to ourselves in every place consigned Our own felicity we make or find. In its political intention...

...ever be made quite satisfactory. The saying has often been quoted : — "How small of all that human hearts endure That part which kings or laws can cause or cure!" It is equally true that the purposes of a great institution like the Lord's Day cannot be reduced to...

...impact of law upon life is only upon a few points. The lines are familiar : How small of all that human hearts endure That part which kings or laws can cause or cure. One needs only to reflect upon the passage of any Bill through Parliament to discover its slender relationship...

...governs least." Nor can we agree with Goldsmith's traveller who avowed : " How small of all that human hearts endure That part which Kings or laws can cause or cure ! " Even the financial relation between employer and employed has been invaded, for in certain sweated...

...the happiness of the mass of the people. They could say with truth :— "How small of all that human hearts endure. That part which kings or laws can cause or cure." The reverse of this is true now. There is hardly any point in one's life which is not touched by the...

...Johnson and non-party Goldsmith joined in composing the couplet : — " How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure ! " In the same year that the Patriotic King was published appeared the far more important U Esprit...

...for fame or precedence or power. As Johnson wrote in Goldsmith's poem : How small of all that human hearts endure That part which kings or laws can cause or cure. " The duration of Parliament," he said, " whether for seven years or the life of the King, appears...

...difference. Johnson inserted into Goldsmith's poem, The Traveller, the lines How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure. His Toryism was based on a profound pessimism, and his devotion to the Church of England sprang from...

...cannot be removed by social changes. Dr. Johnson wrote two centuries ago: How small of all that human hearts endure That part which Kings or laws can cause or cure? While we should liberate the spirit of man from the distorting influences of social slavery and cruelty,...

...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...