 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 Poetical Works of John Milton - Page xxiiiby John Milton - 1886 - 581 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
.... , -, . Pad books serve in many respefts to discover^ to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate. Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...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 five... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...defiled. Bad books serve in many, respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate. Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohihiting, to doubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple ; who ever knew Truth put to the... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Bible - 1816 - 482 pages
...about amazed at what she means ;" &c. " Though all the winds of doctrine (he, elsewhere, observes) were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be...Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter ? " Again : " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 580 pages
...The temple of Janus, with his two controversial faces, might now not insignificantly he set open. And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and pro-' hibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple ; who ever knew Truth put to... | |
 | Christianity - 1826 - 696 pages
...Milton's quotation : " • Where'er no laws exist that bind The whole community, and one man rules, * " Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple ; who ever knew her put to the worse in a free and open encounter ?"•— MILTON'S AHEOPAGITICA. Oriental Herald,... | |
 | John WHITRIDGE - 1826 - 298 pages
...:* * Milton, in hii Anwpagidca; cited in the Orimt. BenU, /or October, 1838. CATHOLICISM. [Sect. " Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple, who ever knevr her put to the worse, in a free and open encounter !" But is it not evident, that, among many... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 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...licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength-- i .p.t_ hur and Falsehood grapple. (Who ever knew.Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter... | |
 | English letters - 1826 - 436 pages
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 | William Carpenter - Great Britain - 1833 - 270 pages
...to the prejudice of another, is to apply power in a manner mischievous and absurd. — Robert Hall. Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...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... | |
 | 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...truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter ? ' In like manner, if dangers beset us from the vast immigration of foreigners, ignorant of our free... | |
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