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... An essay on man. Cornish ed - Page 73by Alexander Pope - 1798Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 392 lehte
...reft, And, in proportion as it biefles, bieft ; 300 Draw to one point, and to one centre bring Beaft, Man, or Angel, Servant, Lord, or King. For Forms of Government let fools conteft ; Whate'er is beft adminifter'd is beft : For Modes of Faith, let gracelefs 2ealots fight ;... | |
 | William Enfield - 1785 - 462 lehte
...the reft, And, in proportion as it bleffes, bleft ; Draw to one point, and to one centre bring Beaft, Man, or Angel, Servant, Lord, or King. For Forms of Government let fools conteft; Whate'er is beft adminifter'd is beft : For Modes of Faith let gracelefs zealots fight ; His... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 lehte
...the reft, And, in proportion as it blefles, bleft; Draw to one point, and to one centre bring Beaft, Man, or Angel, Servant, Lord, or King. For Forms of Government let fools conteft ; Whate'er is beft adminifter'd is beft : For Modes of Faith, let gracelefs zealots fight;... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 398 lehte
...reft, And, in proportion as it blefles, bleft; 300 Draw to one point, and to one centre bring Beaft, Man, or Angel, Servant, Lord, or King. For Forms of Government let fools conteft; Whate'er is beft adminifter'd is beft : For Modes of Faith, let gracelefs 2ealots fight; 305... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 964 lehte
...the reft, And, in proportion as it blciTcs, bleft; Draw to one point, and to one centre bring Bend, Man, or Angel, Servant, Lord, or King. For Forms of Government let fools conteft; Whatc'cr is beft adminiftiir'd is belt : For M sdes of Faith let gracclcfs r.calots fight... | |
 | 1869
...instance, give an accurate idea of its unhappy author? Suppose Pope's celebrated couplet had run thus — " For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose talk is in the right." Where would a disputant have been found bold enough to maintain such a thesis... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 lehte
...rest, And in proportion as it blesses blest ; • 3cO Draw to one point, and to one centre bring Beast, man, or angel, servant, lord, or king. For forms of...best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; 305 His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But... | |
 | Junius (pseud.) - 1804 - 488 lehte
...t3"c.] JUNIUS seems to have had in his eye, when he wrote this period, the following lines of Pope : " For -modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight ; " His can't be wrong, -whose life is in the rig/it." ciples of Christianity may still be preserved, though every zealous sectary adheres to... | |
 | Junius, Robert Heron - 1804 - 506 lehte
...isV.] JUNIUS seems to have had in his «ye, when he wrote this period, the following lines of Pope : " For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight ; " His can't be wrong, whose life is.in the right," ciples of Christianity may still be preserved, though every zealous sectary adheres... | |
 | Hannah Adams - 1805 - 514 lehte
...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 in prose, that we shall not be judged... | |
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