I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have 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.... Four Centuries of Progress ... - Page 95by Henry Davenport Northrop - 1893 - 923 pagesFull view - About this book
| American literature - 1837 - 660 pages
...Colonies in England in the following disgraceful manner : ' I thank God, there are no free schools or printing ; and I hope we shall not have, these hundred...divulged them, and libels against the best government.' But (as might well have been expected) after the declaration of independence, education seems to have... | |
| George Bancroft - United States - 1839 - 494 pages
...William, in the spirit of the aristocracy of the Tudors, " should pray oftener and preach less. But, I thank God, there are no free schools, nor printing...the best government God keep us from both." Thus, in addition to the difficulties which the degraded caste of servants encountered in their endeavors... | |
| Edmund Ruffin - Agriculture - 1839 - 830 pages
...there are no free schools пот printing, and I hope we shall not have, these hundred years ; lor learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and...against the best government. God keep us from both ! [The same hostility to the introduction of printing which was manifested by Sir. William Berkeley,... | |
| 1839 - 630 pages
...for as Sir William Berkely has truly said in his official report, ' learning has brought sedition, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing...divulged them and libels against the best government*.' " " And if printing should be suppressed," said young Andros, " your purpose, which I take to be that... | |
| 1839 - 656 pages
...for as Sir William Bcrkely has truly said in hid official report, ' learning : has brought sedition, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them and libels against the best governments.' " " And if printing should bo suppressed," said young Andros, " your purpo.se, which... | |
| John Dunmore Lang - Africa - 1840 - 494 pages
...that colony, by the Lords of Plantations, " I thank God," (for it was an age of abounding piety,) " there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope...against the best government. God keep us from both !"* The pious Matthew Henry observes, as my excellent mother used to remind me, that " we ought to... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) - 1840 - 64 pages
...the Lords Commissioners:-^-'! thank God, there are no free schools nor printing — and 1 hope we 52 shall not have these hundred years * — -for learning...against the best government. God keep us from both.' But how was it with the Pilgrims ? From a soil of comparative barrenness, they gathered a rich harvest... | |
| William Dunlap - Dutch - 1840 - 560 pages
...God, that there were no free schools nor printing; "for learning has brought heresy and disobedience and sects into the world, and printing has divulged...against the best government: God keep us from both !" This was a 6t king's governour of a colony. APPENDIX E. — Vol. I., p. 3S. WITH a generous disposition,... | |
| Popular literature - 1840 - 480 pages
...for, as Sir William Berkely has truly said in his official report, ' learning has brought sedition, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them and libels against the best governments.' " "And if printing should be suppressed," said young Andros, "your purpose, which I take... | |
| George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 1841 - 452 pages
...William, in the spirit of the aristocracy of the Tudors, ' should pray oftener, and preach less. But I thank God there are no free schools nor printing;...against the best government. God keep us from both.'" l A wish many, we suspect, even in Virginia, begin to think has been brought too literally to pass.... | |
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