 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1853 - 378 páginas
...winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injudiciously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength....and open encounter ? Her confuting is the best and purest suppressing. He who hears what praying there is for light and clear knowledge to be sent down... | |
 | Robert Cox - 1853 - 744 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 páginas
...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...licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Lot her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worst in a free and open encounter? Her... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1855 - 376 páginas
...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...Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing. He who hears what praying there is for light and clear knowledge to be sent down among 'us, would think... | |
 | David Dyzenhaus, Arthur Ripstein - 2001 - 1086 páginas
...rewards the powerful, whose views then become established as truth. We were subjected to "Let [Truth] and falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter." Milton had not been around for the success of the Big Lie technique, but this Court had. Nor did the... | |
 | Randal Marlin - 2002 - 334 páginas
...If a book is in error, free discussion will reveal the errors. As Milton writes so eloquently: And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing. (JM 50) Licensing, he says, in a frequently adopted mercantile metaphor, "hinders and retards the importation... | |
 | Michael Meyerson - 2002 - 304 páginas
...can drive out harmful speech dates at least to the seventeenth century writing of John Milton: And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter? Much of the heart of the First Amendment can be seen in the faith that, over time, falsity will be... | |
 | Rukmini Bhaya Nair - 2002 - 346 páginas
...that man by this very opinion declares that he is farre short of Truth.... And though all the windes of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licencing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. For who knows not that Truth is strong next the... | |
 | Karl Raimund Popper - 2002 - 616 páginas
...optimistic belief that truth, and therefore goodness, must prevail if only truth is given a fair chance. 'Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?' (Areopagitica. Compare the French proverb, La verite triomphe toujours.) So when Milton's Truth was... | |
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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... 
