| Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...invade ; ' More powerful each as needful to the rest, And, in proportion as it blesses, bless 'd : 300 Draw to one point, and to one centre bring Beast,...or king. For forms of government let fools contest ; What'er is best administer'd is best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1828 - 222 pages
...strengthen, not invade; More powerful each as needful to the rest, And in proportion as it blesses, blest; Draw to one point, and to one centre bring Beast, man, or angel, servant, lord, or king. For forms ot government let fools contest' Whate'er is best administer'd is best: For modes of faith let graceless... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...(o the rest, And, in proportion as it blesses, bless'd : 300 Draw to one point, and to one cení re ce: Sees by degrees a purer blush arise. And keener...quicken in her eye>. The busy sylphs surround the administer' d is best: For modes of faith let grac'-loas zealots fight; His can't 1ю wrong whose life... | |
| 1830 - 508 pages
...imputations the best systems and the best men are liable. And although we cannot adopt the sentiment ' For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administer'd is best;' yet we do believe that our attention ought to be turned at present more to the administration of our... | |
| Samuel B. EMMONS - 1832 - 168 pages
...invade; More powerful each, as needful to the rest, And, in proportion as it blesses,. blest; -/- J5raw to one point, and to one centre bring Beast, man,...is best: For modes of faith let graceless zealots figbt; His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right: In faith and hope the world will disagree, But... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...invade ; More powerful each as needful to the rest, And, in proportion as it blesses, bless'd ; — 300 Draw to one point, and to one centre bring Beast,...zealots fight ; 305 His can't be wrong whose life is in the right : 308 For forms of government let fools contest. Warburton, always perplexed and diffuse... | |
| William Mitford - 1835 - 454 pages
...allowance for that latitnde of expression which poetry may claim, Pope is right where be has said, For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. The phrase, indeed, without a comment, is hazardous, yet it may be creditably explained thus: "The... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 pages
...invade ; More powerful each as needful to the rest, And, in proportion as it blesses, bless'd : 300 Draw to one point, and to one centre bring Beast, man, or angel, servant, lord, or king. For forma of govermnent let fools contest ; Whate'er is best admiuister'd is best : For modes of faith... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...the rest, And, in proportion as it hlesses, hless'd : 300 Draw to one point, and to one centre hring krupt hest administer'd is hest : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't he wrong whose... | |
| 1836 - 418 pages
...where they can fully realize the superior advantages of a free government. The sentiment of the poet, " For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administer'd is best," finds no favor in their sight. Firmly attached to the forms as well as the substance of free governments,... | |
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