| Peter Beckford - Italy - 1805 - 472 pages
...every part upside down. This house is admirably situated for the race of San GIOVANNI. LETTER XXI. For forms of Government let Fools contest, That which is best administered is best. I • POPE. ARE all forms of Government then alike, and is no distinction to be made between a Divan... | |
| Charles Jared Ingersoll - United States - 1810 - 186 pages
...and influential was Gesing poet, dilating indeed the sentiment with a poet's license, exclaims, Of forms of government let fools contest ; That which is best administered is best. neral Hamilton, a man of splendid and versatile talents, of a romantic temper and noble sense of honour,... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1811 - 510 pages
...would be too extemporaneous an impulse, an extravagant, thoughtless flight, which should hurry us away with Pope, — For forms of government let fools contest, That which is best administer'd, is best. Monarchies, and aristocracies, in their nature, refer all political power to... | |
| Louis Simond - Great Britain - 1815 - 408 pages
...pure and equitable system of law is the invaluable gem which all the other social institutions arc only intended to guard and preserve inviolate. In...Pope, For forms of government let fools contest, That ivhich is best administered Fs best. The means, however, cannot be indifferent to the end proposed,... | |
| Louis Simond - Great Britain - 1817 - 594 pages
...que l'enveloppe, le coffre-fort, qui garde et conserve ce trésor. C'est en ce sens que Pope a dit : For forms of government let fools contest, That which is best administered is best. Cette remarque spirituelle est au surplus moitié juste et moitié superficielle ; car le choix des... | |
| Louis Simond - 1817 - 592 pages
...que l'enveloppe, le coffre-fort, qui garde et conserve ce trésor. C'est en ce sens que Pope a dit ; For forms of government let fools contest, That which is best administered is best. Cette remarque spirituelle est au surplus moitié juste et moitié superficielle; car le choix des... | |
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1817 - 570 pages
...ill administration. Though we cannot acquiesce in the political honesty of the poet, who says : " FOP forms of government, let fools contest— " That which is best administered, is best," —yet we may safely pronounce, that the true test of a good government is, its aptitude and tendency... | |
| Charles Kelsall - Imaginary conversations - 1818 - 272 pages
...you will not put me off in the rodomontade manner that Pope does his readers , when he asserts : « For forms of government let fools contest ; That which is best administered is best. » which is much as satisfactory as if a pedant were to interrupt the discussions of an assembly of... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1818 - 602 pages
...would be too extemporaneous an impulse, an extravagant, thoughtless flight, which should hurry us away with Pope, — For forms of government let fools contest, That which is best administer'd, is best. Monarchies, and aristocracies, in their nature, refer all political power to... | |
| Thucydides - Greece - 1818 - 524 pages
...to a good administration, and might possibly think of government, as Mr. Pope hath wrote : For modes of government let fools contest, That which is best administered is best. That studied obscurity, in which he hath veiled himself, will not let us discover, whether on instant... | |
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