...idlo belief that all of this — or even that much of it — can bo effected by legisla. tion — " How small, of all that human hearts endure That part which laws or Kings can cause or euro ! " Something, indeed, may be done ; and if, when the history of the Session now opening comes...

..."'flhig* and it was not a little that could disturb the equanimity of my temper' upon such occasions : " Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find." In one of our visits to this river, we penetrated several miles through the woods by a beaten pathway...

...search to find That bliss which only centres in the mind ; Why have I strayed from pleasure and repose, in a. dull translation, thau his carcass would be to his living body. There Siill to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find; With secret course,...

...in a well-known couplet, which I remember to have been once quoted by the late Lord Liverpool — " How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure." Far am I from agreeing in the opinion which the poet has so well expressed in those lines. They are...

...feeble influence on the happiness of private life. He may be ready to exclaim with the poet, " Mow small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure !"* And, extending the remark to moral science, conclude, that beyond the circle of common knowledge...

...which the following passage, beautiful as it is in point of language, seems adapted to produce:— " In every government, though terrors reign, Though...can cause or cure. Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides...

...in the mind : Why have I strayed from pleasure and repose, To seek a good, each government bestows 1 In every government though terrors reign, Though tyrant...that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kir%s can cause or cure ! Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or...

...peculiarly analogous to that expressed by the immortal Goldsmith, in the conclusion of his " Traveller." " In every government though terrors reign, Though tyrant...cause or cure ; Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. AVith secret course which no loud storms annoy Glides...

...leisure, nor from them we are to expect that happiness which in a great degree depends upon ourselves. " How small of all that human hearts endure, That part...can cause or cure Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find." . In fact, the domineering passion for politics which...

...leisure, nor from them we are to expect that happiness which in a great degree depends upon ourselves. " How small of all that human hearts endure, That part...can cause or cure Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find." In fact, the domineering passion for politics which so...