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
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 lehte
...triumph to others, only because both parties have been more in haste to apply than understand them— " For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, " His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right." H ail, bard triumphant ! and some care bestow. Hence the apostrophe of Mr. Pope, but not... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1810 - 272 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 kl prose, that we . hall not be judged... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 538 lehte
...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... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 lehte
...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 424 lehte
...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, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 446 lehte
...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... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1811 - 380 lehte
...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 - 232 lehte
...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 lehte
...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... | |
 | Joseph Milner, Isaac Milner - 1812 - 578 lehte
...certain author, 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 wlwse life is in the right. Proud and self-sufficient men, to whom these lines appear full of oracular... | |
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