 | Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 pages
...papers and a diploma from the schools, in order to be successful. It was one of Milton's best sayings, " Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we injure her to misdoubt her strength ! Let truth and falsehood grapple. Who ever knew truth put to the... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - History - 1835 - 624 pages
...me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by prohibiting and licensing, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple, who ever knew truth... | |
 | William Carpenter - Great Britain - 1833 - 270 pages
...to the prejudice of another, is to apply power in a manner mischievous and absurd. — Robert Hall. Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to doubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple ; who ever knew truth put to the worse in a free... | |
 | Origen Bacheler - Bible - 1822 - 228 pages
...truth be afraid to have their arguments and evidences sent into the world in such a connexion; for, "though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple. Who ever knew truth put to the worse in a... | |
 | William Carpenter - Great Britain - 1833 - 270 pages
...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...truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter ? Who knows not that truth is strong, next to the Almighty ? She needs no policies, nor stratagems,... | |
 | Bishop Gregory Thurston Bedell - Gift books - 1834 - 368 pages
...mind is neither arrived at, retained, nor increased, by comparing ourselves with others. — Ibid. 6. Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple. Who ever knew truth put to the worst in a... | |
 | Gift books - 1834 - 330 pages
...mind is neither arrived at, retained, nor increased, hy comparing ourselves with others. — Ibid. 6. Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple. Who ever knew truth put to the worst in a... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...The temple of Janus with his two controversal faces might now not unsignificantly be set open. And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing. He who hears what praying there is for light and clear knowledge to be sent down among us, would think... | |
 | George Washington Blagden - Massachusetts - 1835 - 42 pages
...liberty of unlicensed printing' — I again allude to Milton, — ' Though all the winds of doctrine be let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the...truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter ? ' In like manner, if dangers beset us from the vast immigration of foreigners, ignorant of our free... | |
 | Education - 1835 - 496 pages
...unworthy of a reply, and give the argument of a sneer: the conclusion is obvious. Milton says — "And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...misdoubt her strength ; let her and falsehood grapple ; whoever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?" Let prejudice do its worst ; let... | |
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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... 
