 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1869 - 300 pagina’s
...established. It has often been remarked how weak and inconclusive are the well-known lines of Pope, " For forms of government let fools contest, That which is best administered is best" On the contrary there is some consolation in thinking that mal-administration is, in the long run,... | |
 | Civil service - 1871 - 264 pagina’s
...where necessary, the allusions : — 1. A well of English undefiled. 2. Sweet swan of Avon. 3. For forms of government let fools contest, That which is best administered is best. 4. A tiling of beauty is a joy for ever. 5. A mighty maze but not without a plan. 6. Thy soul was like... | |
 | Wilhelm Kiesselbach (political economist) - 1871 - 1272 pagina’s
...uub menn man аиф nid;t in bie politifíe Ae|erei beá 3)idjter¿ ^ope einftimmen rooUte, „For forms of government let fools contest That, which is best administered, is the best" fo beftefie Ьоф ber fidjerfte SBeleg für ein guteé ^оиоегпе^ ment eben in ber... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1872 - 236 pagina’s
...wise ones of the most rational and keen-sighted of old English men of the world, than these : — "For forms of government let fools contest; That which is best administered is best." For, indeed, no form of government is of any use among bad men ; and any form will work in the hands... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1872 - 234 pagina’s
...wise ones of the most rational and keen-sighted of old English men of the world, than these : — "For forms of government let fools contest; That which is best administered is best." For, indeed, no form of government is of any use among bad men ; and any form will work in the hands... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1872 - 238 pagina’s
...ones of the most rational and keen-sighted of old English men of the world, than these : — " For forms of government let fools contest ; That which is best administered is best." For, indeed, no form of government is of any use among bad men ; and any form will work in the hands... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1872 - 444 pagina’s
...always the answer to it. Do I present these facts to you that I may deduce Pope's moral from them : "For forms of Government let fools contest, That which is best administered is best"? No ! That couplet like many others in the Essay on Man contains, it seems to me, a mixture of the poet's... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1922 - 848 pagina’s
...change of personnel. The words of Alexander Pope in his immortal Essay on Man are pertinent : "For forms of government let fools contest; That which is best administered is best." The act has nothing whatever to do with raising revenue or conserving the present revenues of the state.... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 1875 - 610 pagina’s
...Leg. Angl., chap. xviii., note g, edit. of 1741.) This is very different from Pope's verses, — " For forms of government let fools contest ; That which is best administered is best," — a saying which, on account of its boldness and convenience, both for the ignorant and indolent... | |
 | Francis L. Patton - 1875 - 20 pagina’s
...polity assumes, though their preference may incline them to one rather than another. They say: " For forms of government let fools contest, That which is best administered is best." In all our churches men of this sort are to be found. And there are, thirdly, those who believe in... | |
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