 | 1795 - 432 pages
...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 and open encounter ? Who knows n,ot that truth is strong, ne^t to the Almighty ? She need no policies,... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...truth he in the field, we do injuriously hy licensing and prohihiting to misdouht her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the hest and surest suppressing. He who hears what praying there is for light and... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...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 and open encounter ? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing. He who hears what praying there is for light and... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...Truth be 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 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 - 1816 - 482 pages
...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 and open encounter ? " Again : " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 464 pages
...by licensing and prohi" biting to misdoubt her strength. Let her " and Falsehood grapple ; whoever knew " Truth put to the worse in a free and open " encounter ? Her confuting is the best " and surest suppressing." He then surely saw, that though Opinions may... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 580 pages
...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 the worse, in a free and open encounter r Her con. luting is the best and surest suppressing. For who knows not that Truth is strong, next... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Francis William Pitt Greenwood - 1822 - 356 pages
....true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy. — Let truth and falsehood grapple. Whoever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the surest and best suppressing. The Eighth Letter to the Kev. Dr. Miller, On the... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1824 - 428 pages
...play upon the 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 in a free and open encounter ?" If we are convinced that our opinions are well grounded and important, we really do not pay them... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...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 and open encounter ? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing. He who hears what praying there is for light and... | |
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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... 
