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 Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 4151861Full view - About this book
| Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...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 truth put to the worse in a five and open encounter ? Who knows n,ot that truth is strong, ne^t to the Almighty ? She need no policies,... | |
| Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...so truth he in the field, we do injuriously hy licensing and prohihiting to misdouht her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth...in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the hest and surest suppressing. He who hears what praying there is for light and clear knowledge to he... | |
| John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...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...free and open encounter ? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing. He who hears what praying there is for light and clear knowledge to be set... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...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 Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? Who knows not that Truth is strong, next to the Ahuighty? She need no policies, nor stratagems, nor... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Bible - 1816 - 482 pages
...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 and open encounter ? " Again : " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never... | |
| 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 be pernicious, the Discussion... | |
| John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 484 pages
...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 be pernicious, the Discussion... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 580 pages
...Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and pro-' hibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple ; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter r Her con. luting is the best and surest suppressing. For who knows not that Truth is strong, next... | |
| Great Britain - 1822 - 576 pages
...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...free and open encounter ? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing. For who knows not that Truth is strong, next to the Almighty ? she needs no... | |
| 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 Faith and Moral* of celebrated... | |
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