 | Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...forewarn, and to illustrate. 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 doubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple ; •who ever knew truth put to the worse in a five... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 436 pages
...put to the worfe, in a free and open encounter ? Her confuting is the beft and fureft fupprefling. He who hears what praying there is for light and clear knowledge to be lent down among us, would think of other matters to be conflituted beyond the difcipline of Geneva,... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 446 pages
...put to the worfe, in a free and open encounter ? Her confuting is the beft and fureft fuppreffing. He who hears what praying there is for light and clear knowledge to be lent down among us, would think of other matters to be conftituted beyond the difcipline of Geneva,... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...upon the earth, so truth he in the field, we do injuriously hy licensing and prohihiting to misdouht her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever...in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the hest and surest suppressing. He who hears what praying there is for light and clear knowledge to he... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...unsignificantly be set open. 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...praying there is for light and clear knowledge to be set down among us, would think of other matters to be constituted beyond the discipline of Geneva,... | |
 | Francis Maseres - Canada - 1809 - 638 pages
...worfe, in a widiout'Ufree and open encounter ? Her confuting is the beft striu"and fureft fuppreffing. He who hears what praying there is for light and clear knowledge to be fent-down among us, would think of other matters to be conftiluted beyond the difcipline of Geneva,... | |
 | Harleian miscellany - 1810 - 610 pages
...leaf, we distrust her own strength. Let her and falshood grapple ; who ever knew truth put to the worst in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest oppression, when it leaves all standers-by no room to doubt.• ' The punishing of wits enhancestheir... | |
 | William Oldys, John Malham - Great Britain - 1810 - 606 pages
...leaf, we distrust her own strength. Lether and falshood grapple ; who ever knew truth put to the worst in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest oppression, when it leaves all standers-by no room to doubt.* 'The punishing of wits enhancesthoir... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohihiting, to doubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple ; who...Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? Who knows not that Truth is strong, next to the Ahuighty? She need no policies, nor stratagems, nor... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Bible - 1816 - 482 pages
...Though all the winds of doctrine (he, elsewhere, observes) were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing...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... | |
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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... 
