And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free... The Popular Science Monthly - Page 2891904Full view - About this book
| Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate. Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to doubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple ; •who ever knew... | |
| Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...upon the earth, so truth he in the field, we do injuriously hy licensing and prohihiting to misdouht her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever...truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the hest and surest suppressing. He who hears what praying there is for light and... | |
| John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...might now not unsignificantly be set open. And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple ; who ever knew... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate. Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohihiting, to doubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple ; who ever knew... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Bible - 1816 - 482 pages
...she means ;" &c. " Though all the winds of doctrine (he, elsewhere, observes) were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple: Who ever knew... | |
| John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 464 pages
...by licensing and prohi" biting to misdoubt her strength. Let her " and Falsehood grapple ; whoever knew " Truth put to the worse in a free and open " encounter ? Her confuting is the best " and surest suppressing." He then surely saw, that though Opinions may... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 580 pages
...might now not insignificantly he set open. And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and pro-' hibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple ; who ever... | |
| Jared Sparks, Francis William Pitt Greenwood - Unitarianism - 1822 - 356 pages
....true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy. — Let truth and falsehood grapple. Whoever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the surest and best suppressing. The Eighth Letter to the Kev. Dr. Miller, On the... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher - Sermons - 1824 - 428 pages
...hoped, from fair discussion. " Though all the winds of doctrine," says Milton, " were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously...truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter ?" If we are convinced that our opinions are well grounded and important, we really do not pay them... | |
| Christianity - 1824 - 782 pages
...HERALD, No. 1.— JANUARY 1824.— VOL. 1. " Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be In the field, we do injuriously, by hocusing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew... | |
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