 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1860 - 296 pagini
...personal liberty. Jt has often been remarked how weak and inconclusive are the well-known lines of Pope, " For forms of government let fools contest, That which is best administered is best." On the contrary there is some consolation in thinking that mal-administration is, in the long run,... | |
 | Henry Barton Dawson - 1863 - 770 pagini
...good or ill administration. Though we cannot acquiesce in the political heresy of the poet who says, " For 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... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1864 - 772 pagini
...good or ill administration. Though we cannot acquiesce in the political heresy of the poet who says, " For 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... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1864 - 850 pagini
...or ill administration. Though we cannot acquiesce in the political heresy of the poet, who says: " For 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... | |
 | 1864 - 786 pagini
...good or ill administration. Though we cannot acquiesce in the political heresy of the poet who says, " For 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... | |
 | 1865 - 696 pagini
...good or ill administration. Though we cannot acquiesce in the political heresy of the poet who says, " For 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... | |
 | Clement Moore Butler - 1866 - 364 pagini
...some better, in their administration than in their theory. A great poet has not hesitated to write : For forms of government let fools contest; That which is best administered is best ! It is certain, at least, that a bad theory and a good practice is better than the opposite. But when... | |
 | 1866 - 326 pagini
...they are very rare,) the best system must prove a failure. It is absolutely true, for Schools, that, " For forms of government let fools contest That which is best administered is best." Do give us a Normal School. I am &c., &c., &c., yours, WM. H. PARQUHAR. PS — To give a more definite... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1867 - 276 pagini
...wise ones of the most rational and keen-sighted of old English men of the world, than these : — " For forms of government let fools contest ; That which is best administered is best." For, indeed, no form of government is of any use among bad men ; and any form will work in the hands... | |
 | 1869 - 372 pagini
...what we have done. This indolent theory sometimes finds expression in Pope's oft-quoted lines, — " For forms of government let fools contest ; That which is best administered is best." As well say that it makes no difference what steam-engine the manufacturer purchases, or what ship... | |
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