...limited. He shared this conviction with his friend Samuel Johnson, who summarized this theme in a couplet: How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure."1 To Burke the personal, domestic, spiritual, moral, and psychological dimensions of human existence...

...to look increasingly to the individual for a plenitude no longer perceived in the social experience: "Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, / Our own felicity we make or find" (lines 431-32, supplied by Johnson to Goldsmith's The Traveller, or A Prospect of Society). The following...

...conclusion that human happiness "only centres in the mind": ...to ourselves in every place consign 'd, Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course,...storms annoy Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.23 "Our own felicity we make or find": the verbs could describe the activities of Canada's early...

...scope of primary justice radically. Dr. Johnson provided the rationale for that in his famous couplet, "How small of all that human hearts endure / That part which laws and kings can cause or cure." That sentiment would gain greater force if we admitted that it was only...

...second, the equally important territorial limits of the state. As Samuel Johnson put the latter limits: How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.8 The state must both protect citizens against the marketplace but also, through its own self-restraint,...

...Times Magazine, pp. 51-52, 76-84. 7 Propaganda and the Technological System Clifford G. Christians How small of all that human hearts endure that part which laws or kings can cause or cure. — SAMUEL JOHNSON (1955) The Latin roots of propaganda are pastoral, even idyllic: to sow, to propagate....

...comments by citing the immortal observation of Dr. Johnson, who once said, "How few of all the ills that human hearts endure, that part which laws or kings can cause or cure." The CHAIRMAN. That is a good comment to close on. Gentlemen, thank you very much. [Whereupon, at 11:19...

...that forms of government are of little (Johnson said no) moment to the happiness of an individual. How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Clearly democracy as a goal and ideal for humanity still suffers from the defect that it is not an...

...public involvement in our country's political life and future. 8 Judicial Cures Managing the SLAPP How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. — Samuel Johnson, lines added to Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller SLAPPs are an exception to Samuel...

...is more aware of man in relation to nature than man in relation to history. Oliver Goldsmith wrote: "How small, of all that human hearts endure, / That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!" Frost was a humanist, almost a Christian humanist, who considered the human lot neither a happy one...