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
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1853 - 378 pages
...Truth be in the field, we do injudiciously, 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 purest suppressing. He who hears what praying there is for light and clear knowledge to be sent... | |
| Edwin Hubbell Chapin - Cities and towns - 1853 - 204 pages
...so Truth he 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." In all these blended aspects of the daily journal, we detect the ultimate... | |
| Robert Cox - Freedom of religion - 1853 - 744 pages
...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? . . . Well knows he who uses to consider, that our fnith and knowledge thrives by exercise, as well... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853 - 196 pages
...shun the great.— PoPE. Then Mary could feel her heart's blood curdle cold. — SoUTHEY. Let truth and falsehood grapple ; who ever knew truth put to the worse in a frce and open encounter ? — MILToN. Let us not disparage that nature that is common to all men, for... | |
| Albert Barnes - Christianity - 1855 - 386 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... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...field, we do injudiciously, by licensing and prohibiting, misdoubt her strength. Let her and False hood grapple ; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter ? Her contending is the best and purest suppressing. He who hears what praying there is for light and clear... | |
| Lydia Maria Child - Religions - 1855 - 480 pages
...let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously to doubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple. Who ever knew Truth put to the worse by a free and open encounter 1 Methinks I gee in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself... | |
| Lydia Maria Child - Religions - 1855 - 516 pages
...let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously to doubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple. Who ever knew Truth put to the worse by a free and open encounter ? Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1855 - 922 pages
...utterance of their convictions. Let truth and falsehood fairly grapple : ' Who,' as Milton once asked, 'ever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter r' Had we been at Manchester the other day, much as we differ from Mr. Bright, we should have been... | |
| Readers - 1856 - 518 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 free and open encounter ? who knows not that Truth is strong, next io the Almighty ? She needs no policies, nor stratagems,... | |
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