| Gift books - 1834 - 330 pages
...mind is neither arrived at, retained, nor increased, hy comparing ourselves with others. — Ibid. 6. Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple. Who ever knew truth put to the worst in a free and open encounter ? — Milton. 7. The depths of misery... | |
| Bishop Gregory Thurston Bedell - Gift books - 1834 - 368 pages
...mind is neither arrived at, retained, nor increased, by comparing ourselves with others. — Ibid. 6. Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple. Who ever knew truth put to the worst in a free and open encounter 1— Milton. 7. The depths of misery... | |
| John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...The temple of Janus with his two controversal faces might now not unsignificantly be set open. And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...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... | |
| Education - 1835 - 496 pages
...unworthy of a reply, and give the argument of a sneer: the conclusion is obvious. Milton says — "And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength ; let her and falsehood grapple ; whoever knew... | |
| Joseph Blunt - History - 1830 - 628 pages
...utter, and to argue freely ANNUAL REGISTER, 1827-8-9. according to conscience, above all liberties. Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by prohihiting and licensing, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple, who ever knew... | |
| George Washington Blagden - Massachusetts - 1835 - 42 pages
...liberty of unlicensed printing' — I again allude to Milton, — ' Though all the winds of doctrine be 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... | |
| Religion - 1837 - 1068 pages
...better expressed than in the vigorous and noble language of Milton, near the close of his Essay. And s of expression with so much exactness as would be...account for the mutual affinity of the gospels ; an by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple ; who ever knew... | |
| 1837 - 568 pages
...next to the Almighty, she needs no policies, no stratagems, no licensings to make her victorious ?' ' Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play 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... | |
| Theology - 1837 - 436 pages
...result. Truth can never suffer in " free and open encounter," nor ought we to doubt of her victory, " though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth." In the fourth Note, which embraces a hundred and six pages, Mr. Norton enters fully into a consideration... | |
| 1838 - 822 pages
...ardent Milton, glowing with his customary eloquence in defence of unlicensed printing, exclaims: "And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple: who ever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter ?" This is unquestionably a sound... | |
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