 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...lord, or king. For forma of govermnent let fools contest ; Whate'er is best admiuister'd is best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life ia in the right ; In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity;... | |
 | Thomas Forster - Philosophy - 1837 - 192 pages
...the shuttlecock of con9 troversy and disputing; about particular forms of worship I should say to him For modes of Faith let graceless Zealots fight His can't be wrong whose Life is in the fight. and holding up the words of JC spoken in the discourse on the mountain , would ask , —... | |
 | Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch - Astronomers - 1839 - 192 pages
...many blessings of my lot. As to creeds of faith, I have always been of the sentiment of the poet, — For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right.'" * Then he alluded to the lines of Hafiz, before mentioned, saying of them, " ' They are... | |
 | James Todd, Ashbel Green - Presbyterian Church - 1839 - 636 pages
...principles they would not agree. The Old School party could not be brought to think with the poet, " For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His cant be wrong whose life is in the right." But they rather chose to contend earnestly for the faith, which they believe was once delivered... | |
 | Vermont Bar Association - Bar associations - 1895 - 462 pages
...him. It may be that in respect to the various religious sects, he would have said with the poet Pope : "For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right." At times he would talk of the great questions that concern man's existence here and hereafter,... | |
 | Julia Catherine Beckwith Hart - Education - 1991 - 292 pages
...when I received a blow that felled me to the ground, and instantly deprived me of reason.' CHAPTER 16 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 charity. POPE 'I... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1906 - 304 pages
...Protestant or in his liberality of religious tenet was both and as a motto for his creed he quoted : "For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong, whose life is right." So was Duane in his nineteenth year without training, business or profession cast upon his... | |
 | Stephen Toulmin, Stephen Edelston Toulmin - History - 1992 - 244 pages
...all that counts: 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. (It was a long time since anyone had got away with calling the zealots "graceless".) Little... | |
 | Peter Minowitz - Business & Economics - 1993 - 376 pages
...Regime, and Faction 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. — Pope, Essay on Man According to Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr., Hobbes abandoned the Aristotelian... | |
 | R.B. Baker - Philosophy - 2007 - 243 pages
...while fixed in his own views he was entirely liberal to those of others, often quoting Pope's lines: For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight: His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. ([II], pp. 35-6). One can't help but believe that it was the fear of provoking "graceless... | |
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