 | 1869
...instance, give an accurate idea of its unhappy author? Suppose Pope's celebrated couplet had run thus — " For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose talk is in the right." Where would a disputant have been found bold enough to maintain such a thesis... | |
 | Junius, Robert Heron - 1804 - 506 pagina’s
...isV.] JUNIUS seems to have had in his «ye, when he wrote this period, the following lines of Pope : " For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight ; " His can't be wrong, whose life is.in the right," ciples of Christianity may still be preserved, though every zealous sectary adheres... | |
 | 1804 - 450 pagina’s
...governments." This is exaftly the fentiment of Pope, exprefTed in thefe two lines of his EfTiy on Man. " For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best." We have feen in this country the fairefl form of government a'mvjft deftroyed by an ambitious and perfecuting... | |
 | Thomas Green - 1810 - 262 pagina’s
...individuals equally absolute. Pope probably borrowed, from a part of this Essay, his thought — " For forms of government let fools contest ;" " Whate'er is best administered, is best". — Essay on Man, Epistle 3, v. 303. A position, however, not defensible, since the form may influence... | |
 | Joseph Milner - 1812 - 576 pagina’s
...certain author, great indeed as a poet, but very ill-informed in religion, are constantly quoted ; For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; — His can't be wrong wlwse life is in the right. Proud and self-sufficient men, to whom these lines appear full of oracular... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1872 - 634 pagina’s
...of this must be apparent to all who have ever seriously thought upon the matter. Pope's couplet, " For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life ia in the right," expresses only half a truth, and by consequence conveys a falsehood ; for must surely... | |
 | Robert Fraser - 1818 - 324 pagina’s
...the administration ; and this is one of the great inconveniences attending that form of government, * For forms of Government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is b«st.— — Essay on Man, B. 3. " But a republican and free government would be an obvious absurdity,... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 358 pagina’s
...HIGHNESS THE PRINCE REGENT, On his most gracious Speech, delivered at the opening of , Parliament. • " For forms of Government let fools contest : Whate'er is best administered, is best." POPE. SIR, ..'.;. •v\ ,''. \: IN addressing myself to you, I am actuated but by ono motive — a... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 pagina’s
...blest ; 300 Draw to one point, and to one centre bring Beast, man, or angel, servant, lord or king. For forms of government, let fools contest ; Whate'er...: For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight ; 305 His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1822 - 272 pagina’s
...latter commentators, and wind up with the wurds of our great moral poet. B " - '.Vi*>».-;t-... ' I "For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong, v hose LIFE is in the right. '' For my part, after all that I have heard on this subject; and I have... | |
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For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best. 
