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
| United States - 1848 - 614 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... | |
| John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 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... | |
| Cassius Marcellus Clay - History - 1848 - 550 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 ?" Daniel Webster, speaking of the freedom of opinion : " It may be silenced by military power, but... | |
| David Holmes, William G. Bishop (Reporter) - Universalism - 1848 - 844 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 fair and open encounter." I stand here, Brother Moderators, to mislead, to deceive, no man. My only... | |
| United States - 1848 - 612 pages
...licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knewtruth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing. * * * For who knows not that truth is strong next to the Almighty 1 She needs... | |
| David Holmes, William G. Bishop (Reporter) - Universalism - 1848 - 844 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 fair and open encounter." I stand here, Brother Moderators, to mislead, to deceive, no man. My only... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by liceuiing 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... | |
| Elias Lyman Magoon - Christianity - 1849 - 446 pages
...so Truth be in the field, we do injurionsly 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 Almighty ? She needs no... | |
| 430 pages
...for tho true must eventually overcome the false. "Let Truth and Falsehood grapple," said Milton ; " who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter ? " The power of the press was remarkably illustrated by the establishment of the Penny Postage system... | |
| Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 310 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 ?" — Milton's Areopagttica. [3] Stanza 29. — " Caloyers" — monastics of the Greek church. [4]... | |
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