 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...  The Heroes of Young America - Стр. 269авторы: Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - 1877 - Страниц: 318Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1853 - Страниц: 378
...winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injudiciously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength....truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter ? Her confuting is the best and purest suppressing. He who hears what praying there is for light and... | |
 | Robert Cox - 1853 - Страниц: 744
...Who knows not," as Milton grandly asks, " that Truth is strong, next to the Almighty ?" — that " though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously ... to misdoubt her strength ? Let her and Falsehood grapple ; who ever knew Truth put to the worse... | |
 | F. M. S. - 1853 - Страниц: 412
...one great secret of the singular power and effectiveness of his conversation. It has been remarked, ' 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.' The like power attends Moral Truth. Unmixed as light, it cannot... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853 - Страниц: 196
...shun the great.— PoPE. Then Mary could feel her heart's blood curdle cold. — SoUTHEY. Let truth and falsehood grapple ; who ever knew truth put to the worse in a frce and open encounter ? — MILToN. Let us not disparage that nature that is common to all men, for... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - Страниц: 796
...not with their unchewed notions and suppositions. THE ALL-CONQUERING POWER OF TRUTH. Though all (he winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the...licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Lot her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worst in a free and open encounter? Her... | |
 | Onora O'Neill - 2002 - Страниц: 116
...credible claim increases, it is simply harder to place trust reasonably. Milton asked rhetorically 'Who ever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?' Today the very prospect of a 'free and open encounter' is drowning in the supposedly transparent world... | |
 | Loren P. Beth - 2002 - Страниц: 192
...therefore not forbid nor hinder the continuing search for it.34 He welcomed freedom as the test of truth; "who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?"35 and saw that in such an encounter diversity of belief was necessary and desirable. "If... | |
 | Lee C. Bollinger, Geoffrey R. Stone - 2003 - Страниц: 348
...the long run. I do not detect in Brandeis's language the echo of Milton's famous rhetorical question: "Who ever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?"77 From personal experience, Brandeis 77. See MILTON, supra nole 2, at 746. knew plenty... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - 2002 - Страниц: 416
...new birth is necessarily accompanied by dirt (iv, 73). 'Who ever', wrote Milton in the Areopagitica, 'knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?' True: but the encounter is rarely free and open; all the forces of society combine, like Pharoah, to... | |
 | Doug Underwood - 2002 - Страниц: 378
...religious connotations that went with it, and when he wrote, "Let [Truth] and Falsehood grapple; whoever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?" he was speaking as a Puritan confident that God would guide people through their religious conscience... | |
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