 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 94 pagina’s
...not invade; More pow'rful each as needful to the rest , And , in proportion as it hlesses , blest; Draw to one point , and to one centre bring Beast...best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right : In faith and hope the world will disagree ; But all... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pagina’s
...strengthen, not invade ; More powerful each as needful to the rest, And, in proportion as it blesses, blest; death to Addison succeeds) The verse, begun to one...thee, O Craggs, th' expiring Q R ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right ; in faith and hope the world will disagree, But all... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pagina’s
...invade ; 296 More powerful each, as needful to the rest ; And, in proportion as it blesses, blest ; Draw to one point, and to one centre bring Beast, man, or angel ; servant, lord, or king. 300 For forms of government let fools contest: Whatever is best administered, is best : For modes of... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pagina’s
...which it is the office of government to bestow, confirming the axiom of our great moral poet : — For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. HOME. - 268 HOME. CORRESPONDENCE. TO THE EDITOR OF AI.r.KS's 1MHAN HAIL. SIR, — Your correspondent,... | |
 | Ernest Campbell Mossner - 2001 - 768 pagina’s
...Edinburgh. From p. 143, n. 2 : " That Politics may be reduc'd to a Science " opens with a denial of Pope's : For Forms of Government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best.* " It is a question with several, whether there be any essential difference between one form of government... | |
 | J. P. Kenyon - 1986 - 504 pagina’s
...from this right, and the exercise thereof, the Lords will not depart. LJ, Xn, 694 BOOK IV GOVERNMENT For forms of government let fools contest. Whate'er is best administer'd is best. POPE CHAPTER 12 THE PRIVY COUNCIL Ostensibly the organisation and method of the Privy Council changed... | |
 | Anthony Pagden - 1987 - 380 pagina’s
...of social science, we find the fulfilment of the prognosis of Pope's couplet from An Essay on Man, For Forms of Government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. His idea of social organisation as patterned on the model of a physiological system also turned sharply... | |
 | Gregory G. Colomb - 1992 - 260 pagina’s
...memorable expression. In An Essay on Man the great chain of being has a point-field structure: "Drawn to one point, and to one centre bring/ Beast, Man, or Angel, Servant, Lord, or King" (HL301-2). And, "Selflove and Social" form a planetary system: On their own Axis as the Planets run.... | |
 | Charles Taylor - 1992 - 628 pagina’s
...strengthen, not invade; More powerful each as needful to the rest, And, in proportion as it blesses, blest; Draw to one point, and to one centre bring Beast, Man or Angel, Servant, Lord or King.31 Our superficial view that all is not right has to be corrected: All Chance, Direction, which... | |
 | Peter Minowitz - 1993 - 376 pagina’s
...him to perform his "duties with proper weight and authority" (Vig42). Religion, Regime, and Faction For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er...best; For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. — Pope, Essay on Man According to Harvey C. Mansfield,... | |
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