 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pages
...would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms. HERESY AND SCHISM NOT DANGEROUS, IF TROTH BE SET FREE. 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... | |
 | John Bickford Heard - 1862 - 196 pages
...adverse criticism. How grandly Milton in his day rebuked this intolerant timidity of Orthodox men : " 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...aught that sorts not with their unchewed notions and suppositions. THE ALL-CONQUERING POWER OF TRUTH. 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy. VI. TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD. — MILTON.' 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 doubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple : who ever knew... | |
 | C. G. Weeramantry - Political Science - 1997 - 468 pages
...criticism of censorship, often quoted to this day, reads: "Though all the windes of doctrine were let loos 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... | |
 | Robert Trager, Donna L. Dickerson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 242 pages
...people will always choose the righteous path. And in the most oft-quoted passage, Milton wrote, 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... | |
 | Stephen Herman - Law - 1999 - 290 pages
...sentiments appear as early as 1 644 in the writings of the great English poet, John Milton, when he wrote, "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... | |
 | Nancy Bernhard - Social Science - 1999 - 270 pages
...perennial belief that truth always triumphs over tyranny this way: "and though all the windcs of doctrin 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... | |
 | Lawrence O. Gostin - Law - 2000 - 524 pages
...AREDPAGITICA — A SPEECH FOR THE LIBERTY OF UNLICENSED PRINTING, TO THE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND (1644l ("And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...earth, 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... | |
 | Richard Moon - Law - 2000 - 330 pages
...permitted to engage in a free and open exchange of ideas and information, truth would prevail: '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... | |
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