| Virginia, William Waller Hening - Law - 1810 - 616 pages
...-, ,n • , ,• the 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... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1810 - 874 pages
...are tent ut ; and we had few that we could boast of, since the persecution in Croniiufll'a tiranny drove divers worthy men hither. But, I thank God, there are no free schools, nor /irinting, and I hope we shall not have, these hundred years ; for learning' has brought disobedience... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Songs - Printing - 1833 - 142 pages
...following reply to certain questions relating to the Press in that colony.—" I thank God there it no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have, these hundred years. God keep us from both." On the 12th of August, 1712, a stamp duty of one half-penny on all single sheets... | |
| James Grahame - United States - 1833 - 576 pages
...descriptive of the state of Virginia, some years after the Restoration. " I thank God," he says, " there are no free schools nor printing ; and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years. For learning has brought heresy and disobedience and sects into the world,... | |
| 1836 - 538 pages
...Virginia, who, in an official communication to the lords of the committee of the colonies, says, " 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,... | |
| Andrews Norton - Apologetics - 1839 - 844 pages
...same mind as the king's governor of Virginia, who said, in an official despatch, " I thank God, that there are no free schools nor printing ; and I hope we shall not have, these hundred years." The enlightened men, who crossed the seas to seek an asylum and a home in the wilderness of New England,... | |
| Edmund Ruffin - Agriculture - 1839 - 830 pages
...worst are sent us, and we had few that we could boast of, since the persecution in Cromwelfs tiranny drove divers worthy men hither. But, I thank God. there are no free schools пот printing, and I hope we shall not have, these hundred years ; lor learning has brought disobedience,... | |
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