 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 246 pages
...country, by his word, and by his grace, his people will be prepared for the conflict. Nobly says Milton, " Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?" No man, ever; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is LIBEHTY. Pass we now to another scene,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means. * * ome churls at our mirth repine, Round ! Her confuting is the beet and surest suppressing. He who hears what praying there is foi light and... | |
 | John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 pages
...The temple of Janus, with his two controversial faces, might now not unsignificantly be set open. And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...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... | |
 | United States - 1848 - 614 pages
...and disbelief, I would calmly repeat to him the glorious and immortal words of republican Milton : "Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing. * * * For who knows not that truth is strong next... | |
 | Cassius Marcellus Clay - History - 1848 - 550 pages
...liberty I mean to exercise ; no gentleman ought to be afraid to exercise it." John Milton: "And although all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon...truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter ?" Daniel Webster, speaking of the freedom of opinion : " It may be silenced by military power, but... | |
 | United States - 1848 - 612 pages
...and disbelief, I would calmly repeat to him the glorious and immortal words of republican Milton : "Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...strength. Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knewtruth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 310 pages
...prominent figures of truly great men amidst the assemblage of marbled man-slayers. [2] Stanza 23.—" And, though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter ?" — Milton's Areopagttica. [3] Stanza 29. — " Caloyers" — monastics of the Greek church. [4]... | |
 | Sherman B. Canfield - 1850 - 212 pages
...The temple of Janus with his two controversal faces, might now not unsignificantly be set open. And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...grapple ; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a Iree and open encounter ? * * For who knows not that Truth is strong, next to the Almighty ; she needs... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - English literature - 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...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... | |
 | Spiritualism - 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...misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple -. for who ever knew Truth put to the worst, in a free and open encounter. Her confuting is the best... | |
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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 free... 
