 | 1804 - 450 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 454 Seiten
...sublime ideas of thai; universal harmony, operating incessantly to universal good, had raised up in him. For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered is best. • For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right.... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 424 Seiten
...whole mystery, both of religion and govern? ment, will be found in these admirable lines of Mr. Pope : For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered, is best. For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight: His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right. THE... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 Seiten
...ideas of that universal harmony, operating incessantly to universal good, had raised up in him. Vm forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered is best, For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right. All... | |
 | Robert Fraser - 1818 - 324 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | abbé Guillaume Honoré Rocques de Montgaillard - 1820 - 864 Seiten
...les hommes an meilleur état possible , répètent avec complaisance deux vers de Pope , belesprit anglais , versificateur, parasite et papiste prononcé,...par corruption, par mollesse et par système : For forras of goveru'mrnt let Tools coatest , AYhatr'er i» l»'st atlministcred , is bcst. Cent folie... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 Seiten
...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 is best administered is best : For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight ; 305 His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right.... | |
 | 1823 - 904 Seiten
...conduire les hommes au meilleur état possible, répètent avec complaisance deux vers de Pope, belesprit anglais , versificateur , parasite et papiste prononcé,...corruption , par mollesse et par système : For forms of gOTern'ment let fools contes! , Whate'er is best administered , it hesl. Cest folie de discuter les... | |
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For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right... 
