 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...  Areopagitica - Seite 58von John Milton - 1918 - 130 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 408 Seiten
....put to the wors, in a free and open encounter ? Her confuting is the beft and fureft fuppreffing. He who hears what praying there .is for light and clearer knowledge to be fent down among us, would think of other matters to be conftitued beyond the difcipline of Geneva,... | |
 | 1795 - 432 Seiten
...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 and open encounter ? Who knows n,ot that truth is strong, ne^t to the Almighty ? She need no policies,... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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...suppressing. He who hears what praying there is for light and clear knowledge to be set down among us, would think of other matters to be constituted beyond the... | |
 | Harleian miscellany - 1810 - 610 Seiten
...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 - 1810 - 606 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 - 1816 - 482 Seiten
...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:...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 Seiten
...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 "...confuting is the best " and surest suppressing." He then surely saw, that though Opinions may be pernicious, the Discussion of them can never be mischievous... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 484 Seiten
...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...confuting is the best " and surest suppressing." He then surely ^saw, that though Opinions may be pernicious, the Discussion of them can never be mischievous... | |
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