| Peter Beckford - 1805 - 472 ページ
...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 ページ
...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,... | |
| Louis Simond - 1815 - 442 ページ
...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 ページ
...politique qu'une administration de justice vicieuse , partielle et corrompue ; c'est l'arche d'alliance7 : tout le reste des institutions sociales n'est que...dans l'augmentation toujours croissante du prix de tontes choses, c'est qu'elle commence par le prix des produits du travail , non par le prix du travail... | |
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1817 - 570 ページ
...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 ページ
...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... | |
| Thucydides - 1818 - 524 ページ
...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... | |
| Richard Carlile - 1824 - 844 ページ
...systems correctly by single words. 1'ope was perfectly correct, as far as he went, when he said: — " For forms of government let fools contest, That which is best administered is best." So say I; but I conclude thatithe best administrations of government will never be found with a hereditary... | |
| James Rondeau - 1824 - 36 ページ
...sacred ties between man and wife. In this part of our subject our poet's remark seems applicable — For forms of Government let fools contest, That which is best administered is best. But who does not know, that in every form of government there may be and must be occasionally, unworthy... | |
| 1824 - 844 ページ
...systems correctly by single words, i'ope was perfectly correct, as far as he went, when he said: — " For forms of government let fools contest, That which is best administered is hest." So say I ; but I conclude that the hest administrations of government will never be found with... | |
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