...Pope, indeed, seems to encourage the same indifference to political systems in his noted couplet, " For forms of government, let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best :" but his commentator, who justly observes that these lines, if so understood, oppose his own express...

...Majesty's message. The independence of Ireland was obscured, butitwas not lost. The poet said— " For forms of government let fools contest— Whate'er is best administered is best." That might be his opinion : he did not agree with him. A bad government could not be well administered....

...adopted the erroneous and alarming doctrine, so forcibly expressed by Pope, in a single couplet : " For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best." As if every thing were to be left to the arbitrary will and caprice of rulers ; and the whole interests...

...have adopted the erroneous and alarming doctrine so forcibly expressed by Pope, in a single couplet, " For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered, is best." As if everything were to be left to the arbitrary will and caprice of rulers; and the whole interests...

...adopted the erroneous and alarming doctrine, so forcibly expressed by Pope, in a single couplet : " For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered, is best." As if every thing were to be left to the arbitrary will and caprice of rulers ; and the whole interests...

...forms ; not one single individual so much as alluded to Pope's well known and oft repeated maxim, — " For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best." The contest between Tories and Whigs turned almost entirely on the goodness or the badness, the value...

...periodically ? Are you the friend of revolution, Mr. De Clifford ?" " If it be to any good ; but — ' For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered — is best.' " " There we are at issue," said the Chevalier. " The poet, to make a rhyme, marred the truth. The...

...periodically ? Are you the friend of revolution, Mr. De Clifford ?" " If it be to any good ; but — ' For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered — is best.' " " There we are at issue," said the Chevalier. " The poet, to make a rhyme, marred the truth. The...

...politics as one of impracticable speculations, and cite with ignorant exultation th« famous couplet of Pope — For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered is best; as if the poet seriously entertained the belief, that all the modifications of social polity were equally...

...politics as one of impracticable speculations, and cite with ignorant exultation tht famous couplet of Pope — For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best ; as if the poet seriously entertained the belief, that all the modifications of social polity were...