 | John Dunmore Lang - 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... | |
 | William Dunlap - 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,... | |
 | 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 Bancroft - 1841 - 368 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 ! " Still white laborers were emancipated, when their years of servitude were ended ; and the law was... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - 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.... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1842 - 634 pages
...brought heresy, and disobedience, and sects into the world ; and printing has EDUCATION AND PRINTING. 515 divulged them, and libels against the best government — God keep us from both." In one respect, Sir William's prayer seems to have been realized ; for to this day, no system of Common... | |
 | 1864 - 752 pages
...expended in the maintenance of public schools. The Governor of Virginia replied : " I thank God that there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years." The fruit has been like the planting. In 1860 three-fourths of the children... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1843 - 394 pages
...ther. Governor, says in his answer to the inquiries of the Committee of the Colonies: "I thank God tha; there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have them these 100 years! For learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1844 - 500 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." Thus, in addition to the difficulties which the degraded caste of servants encountered in their endeavors... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1844 - 410 pages
...most determined resistance to the diffusion of knowledge, even in its most elementary form, saying, " Thank God, there are no free schools, nor printing,...against the best government. God keep us from both." He no doubt showed a laudable anxiety for the physical wellbeing of the people, yet he appears to have... | |
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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.... 
