| Manchester Socinian controversy - 1825 - 286 pages
...his own " Orthodoxy" or denunciations on " the direful and demoralizing effects of Socinianism." " For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. " 53 statements— or in the strength of his argument— that could make any one desirous... | |
| Ralph Wardlaw - 1825 - 152 pages
...soberly, and righteously, and godly." — Many a time have you heard the hackneyed lines of the poet — " For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right." — Now, foolish as every maxim must be, that disjoins practice from principle, and supposes... | |
| Ralph Wardlaw - 1825 - 150 pages
...soberly, and righteously, and godly." — Many a time have you heard the hackneyed lines of the poet — " For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right." — Now, foolish as every maxim must be, that disjoins practice from principle, and supposes... | |
| 724 pages
...authority of a great poet, but very incompetent teacher of religion, in the thread-bare couplet — " For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight : His can't be wrong whose life is in the right." "Thought is free," say they: " error is innocent : doctrines, and creeds, and religious... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...lord, or king. For forms of government let fools contest ; Whatc'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 ; In faith and hope the world will disagree. But all mankind's concern is charirv : All must... | |
| Autobiographies - 1830 - 368 pages
...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... | |
| Joseph Milner - 1826 - 496 pages
...renglones de cierto autor, hombre grande á la verdad como poeta, pero muy mal informado en la religion ; For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight;— His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. Los hombres vanos y presumidos, á quienes estas lineas aparezcan llenas de una sabidurii... | |
| William Duane - Caracas (Venezuela) - 1826 - 642 pages
...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,... | |
| George Gleig (bp. of Brechin.) - 1827 - 1124 pages
...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... | |
| Anthologies - 1827 - 290 pages
...gale. * * » * * 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 : : In I'aith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind.s concern is Charity : '... | |
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