| William Duane - 1826 - 642 pages
...difficulty in tracing the evil to the cause of its duration — but it might be deemed invidious — For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right. I was led to this digression without premeditation, and it is not worth while to erase it,... | |
| George Gleig (bp. of Brechin.) - 1827 - 1124 pages
...superficial minds, they have constantly in their mouths the distich of the poetical pupil of Bolingbroke, For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right. As man seldom knows where to stop when he withdraws himself from the guidance of the unsophisticated... | |
| 1827 - 290 pages
...gale. * * » * * 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 : : In I'aith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind.s concern is Charity : '... | |
| James Lackington - 1827 - 368 pages
...attention was paid to speculative doctrines, but where sound morality was constantly inculcated. " For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right." But in this, as in many other places of worship, it was performed in a dull spiritless... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...servant, lord, or king. For forms of government let fools contest ; What'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 ; In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity : All must... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 646 pages
...that between the first and second Temples, and not less to be deplored by those who thought on both. ' For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right,' was the language of the poet of the day, acceptable enough to what was then almost a nation... | |
| 1828 - 844 pages
...sobriety ; in short, they are truly good citizens. What more can a government or mankind require ;— " For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight. His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right." Yet more is required, or persecution follows. The domestic persecution of little minds,... | |
| John Angell James - 1828 - 444 pages
...both in opinion and practice, and who perhaps boast of their charity, while they exclaim — • " For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right." It is, I imagine, generally thought, by at least a great part of mankind, that it is of... | |
| 846 pages
...truly good citizens. What more can a government or mankind require ; — •• For modes of failli let graceless zealots fight. His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right." Yet more is required, or persecution follows. The domestic persecution of little minds,... | |
| Andrew Mitchell Thomson - 1829 - 748 pages
...they quote as the oracle, or the expounder of their sentiments, the lines of the poet, which say — For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right. Any commentary on this couplet of smooth verse and bad theology might well be spared, did... | |
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