 I thank God there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government....  Sketches of Virginia: Historical and Biographical - Page 11by William Henry Foote - 1850Full view - About this book
 | Abiel Holmes - America - 1805 - 504 pages
...persecution in Cromwell's tyranny drove diverswoithy men hither. Yet, I thank God, there are no free-schools, nor printing ; and I hope we shall not have, these hundred years. For learning. has brought disolxidiunce, and heresy, and sects, into the world, and printIng has divulged them and libels against... | |
 | Abiel Holmes - America - 1805 - 516 pages
...Cromwell's tyranny drove divers worthy men hither. Yet, I thank God, there are no free-schools, nrr printing ; and I hope we shall not have, these hundred years. For Searnir g has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects, into the world, and printing has divulged... | |
 | Virginia, William Waller Hening - Law - 1810 - 616 pages
...worst sent or, since the persicutioo in Cromwell s tiranny drove di- over. vcrs worthy men hither. But, I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not ^°frfe "kotlt t. u I jici • iuu "or Printing :have these hundred years; tor learning has brought... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1810 - 446 pages
...have no free schools nor priming, and hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning hath brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world. And printing has divulged them, and libels agitinst the government. God deliver us from both." This story is taken from Chalmer's Political Annals.... | |
 | John Wilson Campbell - Virginia - 1813 - 322 pages
...that we can boast of since the persecution in Cromwell's tyranny drove divers worthy men hither. Yet I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing;...learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects Y2 into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government." He published... | |
 | Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Bibliography - 1826 - 452 pages
...acted upon, in a neighbouring .province. "I thank God," said the Governor of Virginia, " We have not free schools nor printing ; and I hope we shall not...sects into the world ; and printing has divulged them libels upon the government. God keep us from both."* The first preceptor in the Friend's public school... | |
 | John Winthrop - 1826 - 452 pages
...years hefore, when he was quite a young man. Herkeley's letter to England, in 1671, in which he says, "I thank God, there are no free schools, nor printing...and I hope we shall not have these hundred years," has heen often subject of remark. No man in the world can differ from his reasons, more than the editor... | |
 | John Winthrop - Massachusetts - 1826 - 440 pages
...before, when he was quite a young man. . Berkeley's letter to England, in 1671, in which he says, "1 thank God, there are no free schools, nor printing...and I hope we shall not have these hundred years," has been often subject of remark. No man in the world can differ from hia reasons, more than the editor... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - Pennsylvania - 1832 - 446 pages
...twenty-third report upon Virginia, sixtyfour years after the settlement of that province, "we have no free schools, nor printing; and I hope we shall...world; and printing has divulged them, and libels upon the government. God keep us from both." The early writers of provincial Pennsylvania, poetic and... | |
 | Robert Smith - Society of Friends - 1829 - 432 pages
...time acted upon in a neighbouring province. "I thank God," said the governor of Virginia, "we have not free schools nor printing; and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learnng has brought disobedience, and heresy, ind sects into the world; and printing has divulged them... | |
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