| 1875 - 648 pages
...: — (1.) Dogs. (2.) Music. (3.) Early rising. Í4.) Aleáis — which you prefer, and why. 5.) " For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best." (6.) " He tires betimes who spurs too fast betimes." 1. Classify the English alphabet according to... | |
| American periodicals - 1876 - 848 pages
...So it is with Pope : his verdict on political disputes is summed up in the often quoted words : — For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best. Each felt, as they could not avoid feeling, the angry onset of the contending factions. We cannot rest... | |
| Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1876 - 564 pages
...certain well-known lines sufficiently demonstrates.1 It was necessary, therefore, 1 For instance : — " 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. In faith... | |
| THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 pages
...the pith extracted, the sum and substance turned into a golden sentence for all time, in the lines : For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered is best. L. 308. Take upon content ,• Take upon trust. L. 315. But truo expres«lon : This admirable triplet... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1876 - 668 pages
...— " For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best." In the first couplet, what Pope says is, that a life, which is irreproachable on a human scale of appreciation,... | |
| Henry Allon - English periodicals - 1876 - 604 pages
...it is with Pope : his verdict on political disputes is summed up in the often-quoted words : — ' For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best.' Each felt, as they could not avoid feeling, the angry onset of the contending factions. We cannot rest... | |
| Benjamin B. Bowen - Blind - 1877 - 444 pages
...of government has, we think, been disposed of by Pope in that felicitous and familiar couplet : — "For forms of government let fools contest : Whate'er is best administered is best." It would seem, therefore, the wisest course for the people of the United States to seek the development... | |
| Poets - 1877 - 300 pages
...their pretty eyes may roll ; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. Rape of the Lock. 26. 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. Essay... | |
| Edward Ellis Morris - Great Britain - 1877 - 290 pages
...he asked for Ann's Lane. Pope protests vehemently that the matters are not worth the fighting for : For forms of government let fools contest : Whate'er is best administered is best. Pamphlets were riot a new invention. Our great Milton during the middle stage of his life was a pamphleteer.... | |
| Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 208 pages
...are not so frequently u&ed now as they formerly were; as — Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither. For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered is best. 80. The word as is frequently used with the force of a relative pronoun, especially when it follows... | |
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