 For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administer'd is best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...  L'essai sur l'homme - Pàgina 106per Alexander Pope - 1821 - 207 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Joseph Milner - 1809 - 518 pàgines
...lines of a poet, great indeed as a poet, but very ill informed in religion, are constantly quoted : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. Those to whom these lines appear full of oracular wisdom, may call Irenaeusa graceless zealot... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pàgines
...government l"t fools contest ; Whate'er is best administer'^ is best : For modes of faith, let gra-eless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in...and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's coneern is charity: -All must be false that thwarts this one great end; And all of God, that bless... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1810 - 272 pàgines
...holiness or future happiness. Such appears to have been the design of those well-known lines of POPE : " For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight : His can't be wrong whose life is in the right." And to the same purpose we have often been told kl prose, that we . hall not be judged... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pàgines
...point, and to one centre bring Beast, man, or angel, servant, lord, or king. For forms of Buverninent let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administer'd is best: For modes of faith, let gra'-eless zealots fight; His ran't be wrong whose life is ir; the right ; In faith and hope the world... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 424 pàgines
...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 BABBLER, No. 18. HYMN. 1. The lark, now high soaring in air, Salutes the first blush... | |
 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - 1811 - 446 pàgines
...good, had raised up in him. For fdrms 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 must be false, that thwart this one great end, And all of God, that bless mankind, or... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pàgines
...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 must be false, that thwart this one great end, And all of God, that bless mankind, or... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1811 - 380 pàgines
...sure you will that the still more famous lines, which shallow men repeat without understanding, t' For modes of Faith let graceless zealots fight, " His, can't be wrong whose life is in the right :" . . ' 'i** *. ' • ' i :• are but copied, though with vast improvement in the force... | |
 | John Evans - 1812 - 234 pàgines
...THE PONDERER. N° 18. / Hie murut aheneui esto. Nil conscire tiki, nulla pallescirt culpa. Heiucl. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right. POPE. TO THB PONDERER. JL IME consists of a succession of ideas ; and •when this succession... | |
 | 1812 - 586 pàgines
...justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God," we may with propriety add, in the language of Pope, " For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right." If, Sir, the foregoing observations are considered worthy insertion, you will please to... | |
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