| Richard Graves - 1774 - 386 Seiten
...do not really b:lieve them : they " have not a true praftical faith in thofc piin" ciples.'V — " Faith !" cries the Gentleman ; " for my. part, I am of Mr. Pope's way of " thinking in. that refpeft, V For mod?s of Faith let ienfelefs bigots .fight : -" His can't be wrong, whole Life is ia... | |
| George Bull (bp. of St. David's.) - 1801 - 330 Seiten
...conviction. Should any one quote to me thefe lines of Pope, " For modes of faith let angry zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right." I mould certainly anfwer him in the words of the apoftle, cc a man is juftified by faith without works."... | |
| Richard Hurd - 1811 - 380 Seiten
...lines, which shallow men repeat without understanding, t' For modes of Faith let graceless zealots fight, " His, can't be wrong whose life is in the right :" . . ' 'i** *. ' • ' i :• are but copied, though with vast improvement in the force and turn of expression,... | |
| William Duane - 1826 - 642 Seiten
...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, by the manner... | |
| Edward William Grinfield - 1827 - 514 Seiten
...indefinite liberality which derides as matter of indifference what we believe or what we deny— " For modes of faith, let senseless bigots fight, His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right." If this view of Christianity be correct, it has indeed provided every man, whether Christian... | |
| Jacob Halls Drew - 1834 - 556 Seiten
...What think you, sir, of his often anathematized couplet, " For modes of faith let senseless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right" ? " I think, sir, it has become the pulpit fashion to decry Pope; but it is easier to reprobate than disprove... | |
| Richard Whately (abp. of Dublin.) - 1835 - 458 Seiten
...that a virtuous life is every thing ? Must we not, in short, assent to the poet, who tells us — " For modes of faith let senseless bigots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right." Though the want of sense and sound reason is often veiled by liveliness of expression and... | |
| Richard Whately - 1837 - 426 Seiten
...Prayer," of Pope, whose rhymes often supply admirably the defects of his reasons ; as, for instance, " For modes of faith let senseless bigots fight ; His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right." Let such sentiments, I say, be promulgated in such company as one may often meet with,... | |
| Hugh McNeile - 1840 - 132 Seiten
...sense, and practical religion too, in the famous couplet of our freethinking Poet: For jarring creeds, let senseless bigots fight, His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right. Let every man go his own way, then; his religion is between himself and his God: do not... | |
| 1843 - 846 Seiten
...and sure and only passport to the Divine favour, and adopting, in substance, the poet's maxim — " For modes of faith let senseless bigots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right" Others again may be found so dwelling on soundness of religious belief, and devotional feelings,... | |
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