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 - Página 106por Alexander Pope - 1821 - 207 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1830 - 368 páginas
...attention was paid to speculative doctrines, but where sound morality was constantly inculcated. " For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right." But in this, as in many other places of worship, it was performed in a dull spiritless... | |
| William Duane - 1826 - 642 páginas
...difficulty in tracing the evil to the cause of its duration — but it might be deemed invidious — For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right. I was led to this digression without premeditation, and it is not worth while to erase it,... | |
| 1827 - 290 páginas
...weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. * * » * * For forms of government let fools contest ; ' Whate'er...His can't be wrong whose life is in the right : : In I'aith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind.s concern is Charity : ' ,- . All must be... | |
| George Gleig (bp. of Brechin.) - 1827 - 1124 páginas
...superficial minds, they have constantly in their mouths the distich of the poetical pupil of Bolingbroke, For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right. As man seldom knows where to stop when he withdraws himself from the guidance of the unsophisticated... | |
| James Lackington - 1827 - 368 páginas
...attention was paid to speculative doctrines, but where sound morality was constantly inculcated. " For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right." But in this, as in many other places of worship, it was performed in a dull spiritless... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1828 - 222 páginas
...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...For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can'l be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 646 páginas
...that between the first and second Temples, and not less to be deplored by those who thought on both. ' For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right,' was the language of the poet of the day, acceptable enough to what was then almost a nation... | |
| 1828 - 844 páginas
...sobriety ; in short, they are truly good citizens. What more can a government or mankind require ;— " For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight. His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right." Yet more is required, or persecution follows. The domestic persecution of little minds,... | |
| John Angell James - 1828 - 444 páginas
...both in opinion and practice, and who perhaps boast of their charity, while they exclaim — • " For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right." It is, I imagine, generally thought, by at least a great part of mankind, that it is of... | |
| 846 páginas
...truly good citizens. What more can a government or mankind require ; — •• For modes of failli let graceless zealots fight. His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right." Yet more is required, or persecution follows. The domestic persecution of little minds,... | |
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