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" 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 Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With Memoir, Critical Dissertation ... - Page 197
by Alexander Pope - 1856
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 402 pages
...and full of the great ideas of thofe " Chains of Love " Combining all below, and all above, " Which to one point, and to one centre bring. " BEAST, MAN, or ANGEL, Servant, Lord, or King;" breaks out into this rapturous and divine apoftrophe, to call back the devious Creation to its priftine...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...invade ;'~ More pow'rful each as needful to the rest, And in proportion as it blesses blest ; • 3cO Draw to one point, and to one centre bring Beast,...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...
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The Letters of Junius: With Notes and Illustrations, Historical ..., Volume 2

Junius (pseud.) - Great Britain - 1804 - 488 pages
...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...
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A View of Religions in Three Parts ...

Hannah Adams - Religions - 1805 - 514 pages
...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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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...needful to the rest, And, in proportion as it hlesses, hlest ; Draw to one point, and to one centre hring Beast, man, or angel, servant, lord, or king. For...forms of government let fools contest : Whate'er is hest administer' d is hest : For modes of faith let graceless aealots fight ; His can't he wrong whose...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...the rest, And, in proportion as it hlesses, hlest; ' 309 Draw to one point, and, to one centre hring, Beast, man, or angel, servant, lord, or king For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is hest administer'd is hest : s 2 For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; 905 His can't ho wrong...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 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 of goverument let fools "contest ; Whate'er is best administer' d is best : For modes of faith, let graceless...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 5

David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 pages
...is in fact the bigot, and will be avoided by all prudent men. Hic niger est, hune tu Romane caveto For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right. RETROSPECTIVE NOTICE OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. ARTICLE S. MT Cicero'j Cato Major, or lu Discourse...
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Thornton Abbey: A Series of Letters on Religious Subjects ...

John Satchel - Christian life - 1809 - 480 pages
...what a man believed, but that practice was every thing. and would often quote those lines of Pope, For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; .His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right Of all the productions of the press, none pleased Mr. Barnwell better than the drama. Here,...
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The History of the Church of Christ: The first three centuries

Joseph Milner - CHR 1809 - 1809 - 518 pages
...lines of a poet, 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 whose life is in the right. Those to whom these lines appear full of oracular wisdom, may call Irenaeusa graceless zealot...
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