| Robert Cox - 1853 - 744 pages
...asks, " that Truth is strong, next to the Almighty ?" — that " though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to 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... | |
| F. M. S. - 1853 - 412 pages
...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... | |
| Albert Barnes - 1855 - 376 pages
...How forcible, on this point, are the words of Milton : — "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... | |
| 1856 - 518 pages
...slays an immortality rather than a life. 82. TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD. 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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...notions and suppositions. THE ALL-CONQUERING POWER OF TRUTH. Thoueh 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... | |
| Edward Thomson - 1857 - 408 pages
...it has failed, as recent events show. There is no danger of free discussion. Milton has well said, "Though all the winds of doctrine be let loose to...play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field we do injudiciously to doubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple. Whoever knew Truth put to the woree... | |
| 1859 - 802 pages
...are well known, but cannot be too well known. " Though all the winds of doctrine," he says, " 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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...notions and suppositions. THE ALL-CONQUERING POWER OF TRUTH. 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... | |
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