 | Francis Blackburne - Education - 1780 - 408 pages
....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,... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...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 clear knowledge to he set down among us, would think of other matters to he constituted heyond the... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Oldys, John Malham - Great Britain - 1810 - 606 pages
...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... | |
 | Harleian miscellany - 1810 - 610 pages
...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... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 464 pages
...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 be pernicious, the Discussion of them can never be mischievous... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 572 pages
...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. For who knows not that Truth is strong, next to the Almighty? she needs no policies, nor stratagems,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...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...suppressing. He who hears what praying there is for light and clear knowledge to be sent down among us, would think of other matters to be constituted beyond the... | |
 | 1829 - 760 pages
...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." It is needless to dwell, at much length, on the volume before us. Continuing the works of Tyndale,... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple ; who ever knew truth put to the worse, elights, there be recreations and jolly pastimes, that will clear knowledge to be sent down among us, would think of other matters to be constituted beyond the... | |
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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... 
