 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 366 pages
...lines— "For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, Hia can't be wrong, whose life is in the right; For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best." In the first couplet, what Pope says is, that a life, which is irreproachable on a human scale of appreciation,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 364 pages
...— "For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, Sis can't he wrong, whose life is in the right ; For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best." In the first couplet, what Pope says is, that a life, which is irreproachable on a human scale of appreciation,... | |
 | John Stephen Wright, John Holmes Agnew - States' rights (American politics) - 1863 - 236 pages
...Government, and the same idea had been inculcated by the excellent Pope in that often-quoted passage : For forms of Government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best. Not until all such heretical teachings as that are banished, and we become indoctrinated anew with... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 352 pages
...— "For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, Sis can't be wrong, whose life is in the right ; For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best." In the first couplet, what Pope says is, that a life, which is irreproachable on a human scale of appreciation,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 358 pages
...— "For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, Hit can't be wrong, whose life is in the right ; For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best." In the first couplet, what Pope says is, that a life, which is irreproachable on a human scale of appreciation,... | |
 | John Stephen Wright, John Holmes Agnew - States' rights (American politics) - 1863 - 224 pages
...Government, and the same; idea had been inculcated by the excellent Pope in that often-quoted passage : For forms of Government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best. ^°* un *^ ^ sucn heretical teachings 'as that are banished, and we become indoctrinated anew with... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - Political science - 1863 - 140 pages
...been so often quoted, if a large part of the world did not agree in the sentiment which they contain : For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered, is best. ARISTOCRATICUS. It seems to me, Crito, that your objection, and the verses of Pope which you adopt,... | |
 | James Boully - 1864 - 140 pages
...discerning eye of reason, however it may be masked by prejudice, interest, or superstition. CHAPTER II. 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 Faith is in the right :... | |
 | Frederick Swartz Jewell - School discipline - 1866 - 318 pages
...simply absurd and tyrannous. The general law in this direction, has been tersely and truly expressed by Pope : "For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best." The substance of it is this: some government is better than none, and government is as truly relative... | |
 | Frederick Swartz Jewell - School discipline - 1866 - 396 pages
...simply absurd and tyrannous. The general law in this direction, has been tersely and truly expressed by Pope : "For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best." The substance of it is this : some government is better than none, and government is a,s truly relative... | |
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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... 
