| 1812 - 586 페이지
...justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God," we may with propriety add, in the language of Pope, " For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right." If, Sir, the foregoing observations are considered worthy insertion, you will please to... | |
| Joseph Milner - 1812 - 576 페이지
...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... | |
| 1814 - 642 페이지
...time and days In wanton follies, and ahandon'd ways ; Live for ourselves— turn with the fashion'i tide — Nor cast a thought on ought than this beside...tomb; And all they were, forgotten, with them die, Wlun tears are dried, and breasts have ccas'4 to sigh ! This is our lot— the rich as well as great—... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1872 - 634 페이지
...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 페이지
...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 페이지
...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 페이지
...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 페이지
...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... | |
| Sydney - 1818 - 78 페이지
...had no fears about any thing else; and 1 do not see how any sober-minded man could wi;li for more. " For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight; " His can't be wrong whose life is in the right." For my own part I will honestly confess that I owe allegiance of conscience only to my... | |
| George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1818 - 574 페이지
...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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