 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 544 pages
...bless'd ; soo 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 :' adopted the absurd and profligate harmonia a musicis dicitur in cantu, fables current in their day,... | |
 | Malcolm MacColl - 1872 - 276 pages
...— " For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right ; For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best." It is hard to say which of these two couplets deserves the palm for shallowness of conception and viciousness... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1873 - 622 pages
...poor Indian, whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind ; 1 For instance — 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 ; In... | |
 | John Burley Waring - 1873 - 482 pages
...in a much better state ; also Switzerland ; it is also a danger to the world in Germany. 481 1871. " For forms of Government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best." — POPE. This also is wrong, and fraught with evil to those who uphold it. The Republic of North America,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...offended some modern critics who might have known better. We may pick holes in the celebrated antithesis . For forms of government let fools contest : Whate'er is best administered is best ; For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight, He can't be wrong whose life is in the right. Certainly,... | |
 | American Gas Light Association - Gas - 1896 - 470 pages
...rather than on the plan that is pursued." Mr. Nettleton's remarks brought to my mind that couplet of Pope : "For forms of government, let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered, is best." But by a poor or indifferent method, well worked, superior results are oftener obtained than are secured... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pages
...to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! III. 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: In... | |
 | 1875 - 648 pages
...: — (1.) Dogs. (2.) Music. (3.) Early rising. Í4.) Aleáis — which you prefer, and why. 5.) " For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best." (6.) " He tires betimes who spurs too fast betimes." 1. Classify the English alphabet according to... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1875 - 598 pages
...For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His 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,... | |
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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... 
