 | David Ramsay - 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.... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 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... | |
 | 1819 - 544 pages
...enlightened statesman, ' that 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.' Education and printing however flourished in spite of the royal governors. As early as 1639 schools... | |
 | 1826 - 558 pages
...Cromwell's tyranny drove divers worthy men hither. Yet 1 thank God there are no free schools, nor printing. For learning has brought disobedience, and heresy,...against the best government. God keep us from both.' * This extraordinary doctrine was uttered by a governor of one of the most powerful provinces in America,... | |
 | 1822 - 272 pages
...Virginia, to certain questions relating to that colony, propounded from abroad in 1670. " I thank God thert are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall...against the best government. God keep us from both !" . What an admirable text for the Holy Alliance ! What a consoling reflection for the editor of a... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - 1824 - 524 pages
...passage ; — " 1 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... | |
 | Historical Society of Pennsylvania - 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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1826 - 538 pages
...Cromwell's tyranny drove divers worthy men hither. Yet I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing. For learning has brought disobedience, and heresy,...against the best government. God keep us from both.' * This extraordinary doctrine was uttered by a governor of one of the most powerful provinces in America,... | |
 | 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... | |
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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.... 
