| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means. " Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injudiciously, by licensing and prohibiting, misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple ;... | |
| Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 pages
...wheresoever—there. SEC. LIV. TRUTH INVINCIBLE IF LEFT TO GRAPPLE WITH FALSEHOOD ON EQUAL TERMS. 1 upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously,...licensing and prohibiting, to doubt her strength. Let Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play 2 her and Falsehood grapple ; who ever knew... | |
| Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 pages
...ethereal and soft essence, the breath of reason itself — slays an immortality rather than a life Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...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... | |
| 1850 - 426 pages
...harmony, and discuss the differences which part them in their belief. Then, in the language of Milton, " though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple -. for who ever knew Truth put to the worst, in... | |
| 1852 - 978 pages
...And cling arouud the soul, as the sky clings Kound the mute earth for ever beautiful."— Anon. •* Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in Hie field, we *io injuriously to doubt her strength. Let her an I Falsehood grapple I Who ever know... | |
| Robert Cox - 1853 - 744 pages
...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 - 412 pages
...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 - 196 pages
...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 - 796 pages
...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...we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Lot her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worst in a free... | |
| Albert Barnes - 1855 - 376 pages
...ultimate triumph, has nothing to fear. How forcible, on this point, are the words of Milton : — "And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...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... | |
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