| John Evans - English essays - 1812 - 234 pages
...THE PONDERER. N° 18. / Hie murut aheneui esto. Nil conscire tiki, nulla pallescirt culpa. Heiucl. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right. POPE. TO THB PONDERER. JL IME consists of a succession of ideas ; and •when this succession... | |
| Joseph Milner - Church history - 1812 - 576 pages
...certain author, great indeed as a poet, but very ill-informed in religion, are constantly quoted ; For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; — His can't be wrong wlwse life is in the right. Proud and self-sufficient men, to whom these lines appear full of oracular... | |
| English literature - 1814 - 642 pages
...Live for ourselves— turn with the fashion'i tide — Nor cast a thought on ought than this beside ! "For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right." Beauty and youth cannot for ever bloom, All must repose in death's cold silent tomb; And... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1872 - 634 pages
...of this must be apparent to all who have ever seriously thought upon the matter. Pope's couplet, " For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life ia in the right," expresses only half a truth, and by consequence conveys a falsehood ; for must surely... | |
| 1822 - 440 pages
...falsehood. I know the phrase has been sanctioned, consecrated, if you will, by a Popish infidel : — *' For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight: — His can't be wrong whose life is in the right." But Alexander Pope's faith was not founded on the word of God ; and, though this celebrated... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...higotry rather than to sound reason. Yet none can help respecting the errors which arise from principle: For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. Except by his Utopia, sir Thomas More is now little known us an author: his polemic works... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1817 - 524 pages
...conceit of meriting such goodness. My sentiments on this head you will see in the copy of an old 1 " For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.'' roi'i. letter inclosed,1 which I wrote in answer to one from an old religionist whom I... | |
| Gavin Young - 1817 - 422 pages
...Whate'ver is best administered is best:" err in the same manner as those who exclaim, " For forms of creeds let graceless zealots fight, " His can't be wrong whose life is in the right." Good laws are the good works of legislators; but liberty, like faith, is the only vital... | |
| George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1818 - 574 pages
...apologist is fond of citing two lines, which have been often cited by others with a similar view. " For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, " His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right." The Christian faith, at its first appearance, endured the trial of ten persecutions, and... | |
| George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 566 pages
...apologist is fond of citing two lines, which have been often cited by others with a similar view. " For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, " His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right." The Christian faith, at its first appearance, endured the trial of ten persecutions, and... | |
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