 | Columbia County (N.Y.) - 1804 - 450 pages
...governments." This is exaftly the fentiment of Pope, exprefTed in thefe two lines of his EfTiy on Man. " For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best." We have feen in this country the fairefl form of government a'mvjft deftroyed by an ambitious and perfecuting... | |
 | Thomas Green - Literature - 1810 - 262 pages
...individuals equally absolute. Pope probably borrowed, from a part of this Essay, his thought — " For forms of government let fools contest ;" " Whate'er is best administered, is best". — Essay on Man, Epistle 3, v. 303. A position, however, not defensible, since the form may influence... | |
 | Robert Fraser - Fisheries - 1818 - 324 pages
...the administration ; and this is one of the great inconveniences attending that form of government, * For forms of Government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is b«st.— — Essay on Man, B. 3. " But a republican and free government would be an obvious absurdity,... | |
 | Richard Carlile - Free thought - 358 pages
...HIGHNESS THE PRINCE REGENT, On his most gracious Speech, delivered at the opening of , Parliament. • " For forms of Government let fools contest : Whate'er is best administered, is best." POPE. SIR, ..'.;. •v\ ,''. \: IN addressing myself to you, I am actuated but by ono motive — a... | |
 | abbé Guillaume Honoré Rocques de Montgaillard - France - 1827 - 522 pages
...parasite et' papiste prononcé, c'est-à-dire dépendant par corruption , par mollesse et par système : For forms of government let fools contest , Whate'er is best administered, is best. « C'est folie ,de discuter les formes de gouverne» ment ; le meilleur consiste dans la meilleure... | |
 | Hermann (pseud.) - Free trade - 1831 - 118 pages
...heads, and resume the subject of my last communication, and, in the language of the poet, I would say, " For forms of Government let fools contest, " Whate'er is best administered is best." As to what relates to the immediate administration of the Government of the United States, by our worthy... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1833 - 442 pages
...Pope, indeed, seems to encourage the same indifference to political systems in his noted couplet, " For forms of government, let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best :" but his commentator, who justly observes that these lines, if so understood, oppose his own express... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Home rule - 1834 - 208 pages
...Majesty's message. The independence of Ireland was obscured, butitwas not lost. The poet said— " For forms of government let fools contest— Whate'er is best administered is best." That might be his opinion : he did not agree with him. A bad government could not be well administered.... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1835 - 558 pages
...adopted the erroneous and alarming doctrine, so forcibly expressed by Pope, in a single couplet : " For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best." As if every thing were to be left to the arbitrary will and caprice of rulers ; and the whole interests... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1835 - 318 pages
...have adopted the erroneous and alarming doctrine so forcibly expressed by Pope, in a single couplet, " For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered, is best." As if everything were to be left to the arbitrary will and caprice of rulers; and the whole interests... | |
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For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best. 
