 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
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 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 1 Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing. He who hears what praying there is for light and... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 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 strflng, next to the Almighty? She needs no policies, nor stratagems,... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1863 - 938 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 !"* We have not space to enumerate the titles of these ephemeral publications... | |
 | 1856 - 298 pages
...reign, when error shall be cast out. Truth will triumph yet, " Let truth and falsehood grapple : whoever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter." Truth is mighty, and must prevail : " For who knows not that truth is strong next to the Almighty ?... | |
 | Lawrence O. Gostin - Law - 2000 - 524 pages
...so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and probibiting, to misdoubt her strengrh. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worst, in a free and open encounter?"l 31 GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD 409 (Robert Maynard Hutchins... | |
 | Nigel Warburton, Jonathan E. Pike, Derek Matravers - Philosophy - 2000 - 416 pages
...because Milton has said that 'though all the winds of doctrine are let loose upon the earth ... whoever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?' because 'the truth must always prevail in a fair fight with falsehood? These are brave and optimistic... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 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?"-Milton, Areopagitica; or Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing (1644). Areopagitica... | |
 | David Dyzenhaus, Arthur Ripstein - Philosophy - 2001 - 1086 pages
...rewards the powerful, whose views then become established as truth. We were subjected to "Let [Truth] and falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter." Milton had not been around for the success of the Big Lie technique, but this Court had. Nor did the... | |
 | Steven L. Winter - Law - 2003 - 446 pages
...though all the windes of doctrin were let loose to play upon the earth, Truth be in the field. . . . Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the wors, in a free and open encounter. . . . For who knows not that Truth is strong next to the Almighty;... | |
 | Randal Marlin - Philosophy - 2002 - 334 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. (JM 50) Licensing, he says, in a frequently adopted mercantile metaphor, "hinders... | |
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