 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...  A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed - Page 185edited by - 1916 - 889 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Matthews Manly - English prose literature - 1909 - 578 pages
...laid by without perusal. And now the time in special is by privilege to write and speak what may help to the further discussing of matters in agitation....grapple; who ever knew 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... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1909 - 572 pages
...to the further discussing of matters in agitation. The temple of Janus with his two controversal l faces might now not unsignificantly be set open. And...grapple; who ever knew 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1909 - 364 pages
...help to the further discussion of matters in agitation. The temple of Janus with his two controversial faces might now not unsignificantly be set open.""...; who ever knew 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... | |
 | James Chandler - Poetry - 1984 - 338 pages
...thanks to Janel Mueller for this reference. Milton's Areopagitica, of course, speaks to the same point: "And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose...grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter" — Complete Poems and Major Prose, p. 746. For an argument linking the reputation... | |
 | Jane Lamb - Education - 1985 - 292 pages
...been echoed by many an editor and public speaker in the ensuing three centuries, Milton declared: . . .though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter. Though Milton's words had little effect on events of his day, they were picked... | |
 | Lee C. Bollinger Dean University of Michigan Law School - Law - 1986 - 310 pages
...falsehoods would ever prevail over truths, charging that to believe otherwise was an insult to Truth: "And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose...grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?"29 Milton's statement, taken from another era and out of its context, may sound... | |
 | C. Edwin Baker - Law - 1992 - 396 pages
...progressive process of change. The Classic Marketplace of Ideas Theory THE THEORY AND ITS ASSUMPTIONS And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose...Falsehood grapple: who ever knew Truth put to the worst, in a free and open encounter.1 John Milton's imagery received possibly its best elaboration... | |
 | Terrence E. Cook - Political Science - 1991 - 326 pages
...statements, whether working the metaphor of trial by combat or that of the capitalist marketplace: Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter. (John Milton, Areopagitica, 1644) Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself;... | |
 | J. Budziszewski - Philosophy - 348 pages
...for use in expression that ordinary persons can hardly imagine. Said John Milton in his Areopagitica, "though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to...grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?" (Areopagitica and On Education, at 50.) But all other things being equal, the... | |
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