| Peter Beckford - 1805 - 472 páginas
...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 - 1810 - 186 páginas
...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 - 1811 - 510 páginas
...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 - 1815 - 436 páginas
...social institutions are only intended to guard and preserve inviolate. In this sense, we might say with Pope, For forms of government let fools contest, That which is best administered is best. The means, however, cannot be indifferent to the end proposed, and the object of forms of government... | |
| Louis Simond - 1815 - 442 páginas
...social institutions are only intended to guard and preserve inviolate. In this sense, we might say with Pope, For forms of government let fools contest, That which is best administered is best. The means, however, cannot be indifferent to the end proposed, and the object of forms of government... | |
| Louis Simond - 1817 - 594 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 - 1817 - 570 páginas
...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 - 1818 - 272 páginas
...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 - 1818 - 602 páginas
...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... | |
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