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" 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.... "
The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Companion - Page 13
edited by - 1850
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 92

1850 - 638 pages
...we " shall not have them these hundred years. 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." ' Such are two opposite views of the value of learning which still agitate the world ; and the question...
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The Works of the Honourable James Wilson, L. L. D.: Late One of ..., Volume 2

James Wilson - Law - 1804 - 514 pages
...governour, we find the following one, too extraordinary to be passed without particular notice. *' I thank God, there are no free schools, nor printing;...against the best government : God keep us from both !"•> By the court of Charles, this prayer was received mos.t graciously ; and, agreeably to its principle,...
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American Annals: Or, a Chronological History of America, from Its ..., Volume 1

Abiel Holmes - America - 1805 - 504 pages
...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...divulged them and libels against the best government : Cod keey •3i froai both !" A Chalmers, i. 36*. land, was ready to break out into an open war with...
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The Land We Live in: Or, The Story of Our Country

Henry Mann - United States - 1896 - 350 pages
...years ; for learning has brought heresy and disobedience and sects into the world, and printing hath divulged them and libels against the best government ; God keep us from both ! " It is not strange that a man who felt like this should have cared but little for the safety and...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 9

David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1810 - 446 pages
...since the persecution in Cromwell's tiranny drove divers worthy men hither. But, I thank God, the re are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall...against the best government. God keep us from both ! CATALOGUE, OP NEW PUBLICATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES. FOR OCTOBER, 1810. Sunt bona; sunt quaetlaiu...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volumes 8-9

Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1810 - 874 pages
...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...against the best government. God keep us from both ! CATALOGUE, OF NEW PUBLICATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES. FOR OCTOBER, 1810. Snnt bonn, slint qiiatdum...
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American Annals: Or, A Chronological History of America, from Its ..., Volume 1

Abiel Holmes - America - 1813 - 432 pages
...persecution in Cromwell's tyranny drove divers worthy men hither. Yet, I thank God, there are no freeschools, nor printing ; and I hope we shall not have, these...and libels against the best government : God keep up from both 1" thes the importation of negroes and slaves ;" for making void and punishing fraudulent...
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A History of Virginia from Its Discovery Till the Year 1781: With ...

John Wilson Campbell - Virginia - 1813 - 322 pages
...we shall not have these hundred years. For 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 the Lost Lady, a tragi-comedy, 1639; and a discourse and view of Virginia, 1663. American...
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History of the United States: From Their First Settlement as ..., Volume 1

David Ramsay - History - 1816 - 458 pages
...no free-schools, nor printing presses ; and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years : fop learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and...against the best government. God keep us from both."* The next college was established in Connecticut, and obtained its charter and endowments, in 1701....
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An Appeal from the Judgments of Great Britain Respecting the United States ...

Robert Walsh - Public opinion Great Britain - 1819 - 574 pages
...passage: — " I thank God we have no free schools, nor any printing; and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience,...against the best government: God keep us from both." Accordingly, every effort was made to shut out the pestilent tree of knowledge. On the appointment...
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