 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...  A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed - Page 185edited by - 1916 - 889 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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...grapple. Who ever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter ? Her confuting is the best suppressing." In the first page of his review, Dr. Williams... | |
 | 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...; 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... | |
 | 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...falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worst in a free and open encounter ? Her confuting is tlie best and surest suppressing. He who hears... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...what she means, and, in their envious gabble, would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms. » » * Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...falsehood grapple ; who ever knew Truth put to the worst in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing. He who hears... | |
 | John Milton - 1865 - 514 pages
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 | 1865 - 826 pages
...her. " The Temple of Janus," he says, " with his two controversial faces might now not insignificantly be set open. And though all the winds of doctrine...grapple ; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter. Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing. . . . For who knows not that... | |
 | John Milton - 1866 - 500 pages
...gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms The temple of Janus, with his two controversial faces, might now not unsignificantly be set open....; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter ? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing. ..... When a man hath been laboring... | |
 | Afternoon lectures - 1866 - 242 pages
...you may, will still be pure and cannot combine with error or take a stain, he boldly exclaims : — " Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...grapple ; who ever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter ? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing." And then, with more than a... | |
 | 1866 - 492 pages
...and piercing spirit, . . . not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity can soar to. ... Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...grapple ; who ever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter ? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing, for who knows not that Truth... | |
 | John Burley Waring - 1866 - 518 pages
...who claps his shoulder to the ground to stop an earthquake." Hear what great-souled Milton says : " Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...grapple, who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter ? For who knows not that Truth is strong, next to the Almighty ? She needs no policies,... | |
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