 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
 | Tracts - Church and state - 1840 - 514 pages
...so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to mis-doubt 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 clearer knowledge to be sent... | |
 | Origen Bacheler, Robert Dale Owen - Bible - 1840 - 386 pages
...loose to play upon the 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 free and open encounter ?" Some there are who, in view of all these things, are ready to exclaim, What good does all this do... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - Cherokee Indians - 1843 - 300 pages
...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 put to the worse in an open and free encounter ?" This same doctrine was what Erskine contended for, throughout his long... | |
 | Theology - 1837 - 548 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 sent... | |
 | 1844 - 628 pages
...earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to doubt our 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 Almighty? She needs no politics, nor stratagems, nor... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1844 - 454 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 ?" Yet our trust is not a blind reliance on the power of truth, or the goodness of Providence. "Truth... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1844 - 450 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 ?" Yet our trust is not a blind reliance on the power of truth, or the goodness of Providence. "Truth... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 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 r.']«cL encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing. He who hears what praying there... | |
 | Atheism - 1844 - 94 pages
...reasoning on the subject of deity. Milton, in his " speech for the liberty of unlicenced printing," asks " who ever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter." Bishop Warburton, in his work on the Divine Legation of Moses, and at page 80 of the dedication, where... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...doctrine were let loose upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we injure her to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple ; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter ?" The Presbyterians had been from the first hypocritical in their advocacy of freedom. They only preferred... | |
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