| 1837 - 548 páginas
...valor enough in soldiership, is but weakness and cowardice in the wars of truth. For who knows not that truth is strong, next to the Almighty ; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious, those are the shifts and the defences that error... | |
| John Milton - 1845 - 572 páginas
...and has left nothing to be said on this question by succeeding ages. "Who knows not," he exclaims, "that truth is strong! Next to the Almighty, she needs...victorious." "Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we injure her to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 páginas
...valour enough in soldiership, is but weakness and cowardice in the wars of Truth. For who knows not that Truth is strong, next to the Almighty ? She needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings, to make her victorious ; those are the shifts and the defences that... | |
| John Milton - 1845 - 572 páginas
...temple oTTS'niis . wTtn his two controversal faces might now not unsigniticantly be set open. / And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the^earth'v i«? 'nithbe in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to im.nluuBi... | |
| 1846 - 492 páginas
...you do the same for all wise clergymen ; because, in the confident words of a stern old Puritan, " though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the 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... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 246 páginas
...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 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... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 202 páginas
...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 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... | |
| Francis William Pitt Greenwood - 1846 - 442 páginas
...those which were offered by God's good spirit, and man's free mind. " For who knows not," says he, " that truth is strong, next to the Almighty ; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings, to make her victorious ; those are the shifts and the defences that... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means. * * ome churls at our mirth repine, Round do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple... | |
| James Thomson - 1847 - 504 páginas
...full of the most noble magnanimity and contempt of consequences. " Who does not know," he exclaims, " that Truth is strong, next to the Almighty ; she needs...stratagems, no licensings to make her victorious." The poetry of Milton must not be tried by his great Epic alone : it is of the most varied description... | |
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