 | John Adams - Presidents' spouses - 1841 - 334 pages
...benevolent mind, than a research after the best. Pope flattered tyrants too much when he said, "For forma of government let fools contest, " That which is best administered is best." Nothing can be more fallacious than this: But poets read history to collect flowers, not fruits ; they... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1842 - 322 pages
...less IMS own happiness : the happiness of others is but a means to that relatively universal end." " For forms of Government let fools contest : That -which is best administered is best" " One of the most foolish couplets that was ever written — if written with knowledge ; for Pope was... | |
 | Free thought - 1842 - 1124 pages
...Britain,] yet the individuals differ so much in moral character, that the paradoxical axiom of Pope, ' " For forms of government let fools contest, "That which is best administered is best," is solved and explained by the extreme and unparalleled misery of this people. The mind of the native... | |
 | John Henry Hobart - Apostolic succession - 1844 - 286 pages
...form as by another ; and in this point of view they think there may be force in the observation, " For forms of government let fools contest, That which is best administered is best." But EPISCOPACY is UNCHANGEABLE, because it is the originally constituted mode of conveying that commission,... | |
 | 1846 - 708 pages
...utterly disregarded, and the effects of this government disprove the truth of Pope's notion, — " For forms of government let fools contest, That which is best administered is best." Brougham and D'Israeli have strangely likened our constitution, during the early part of George the... | |
 | John Henry Hobart (bp. of New York.) - 1846 - 276 pages
...form as by another ; and in this point of view they think there may be force in the observation, " For forms of government let fools contest, That which is best administered is best." But EPISCOPACY is UNCHANGEABLE, because it is the originally constituted mode of conveying that commission,... | |
 | Robert Mayo - 1847 - 314 pages
...State itself will still be a chaos and a failure, such as to justify what Pope said : ' • For forma of Government let fools contest, That which is best administered is best." What signify the wisest theories, what boots the most perfect settlement of rights, what is the most... | |
 | James Gallaher - Religion - 1850 - 420 pages
...the measure. The agitation of this subject has often reminded me of the notable lines of Pope : — " For forms of government let fools contest ; That which is best administered is best." Dr. Anderson, of Maryville, Tennessee, came forward during a sacramental meeting to receive into the... | |
 | James Gallaher - Religion - 1850 - 412 pages
...the measure. The agitation of this subject has often reminded me of the notable lines of Pope : — " For forms of government let fools contest ; That which is best administered is best" Dr. Anderson, of Mary ville, Tennessee, came forward during a sacramental meeting to receive into the... | |
 | Indiana. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1850 - 1022 pages
..., such a country as our own. If that doctrine be true, sir, we should be ready to say with Pope: I "For forms of government let fools contest. That which is best administered u best." Mr. Chairman, so important, fundamentally, . do I regard these retrograde movements in reference... | |
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