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" 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, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government.... "
The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge - Page 123
edited by - 1863
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The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from ...

Virginia, William Waller Hening - 1810 - 616 pages
...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...
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The History of the United States of North America, Till the ..., Volume 1

James Grahame - 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,...
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Sermons Preached at the Annual Election

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,...
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The American Laborer: Devoted to the Cause of Protection to Home Industry ...

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...
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The New Englander, Volume 23

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...
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Religion in America, Or, An Account of the Origin, Progress, Relation to the ...

Robert Baird - 1844 - 390 pages
...Berkeley, in 1670, in replying to the inquiries addressed to him by the Lords of Plantations, 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,...
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Autobiography of an Actress: Or, Eight Years on the Stage

Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie - 1854 - 452 pages
...use, why not in all ? A royal governor of Virginia (Sir William Berkeley) said,* " I thank God that there are no free schools nor printing; and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years — for learning has brought disobedience, and heresies, and sects into the...
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Cyclopaedia of American literature, by E. A. and G. L ..., Volume 1; Volume 62

Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 pages
...that wo can boast of, since tho persecution in Cromwell's tyranny drove divers worthy men hither. Yet, I thank God. there are no free schools nor printing ; and I hop« wo shall not have theie hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and...
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A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States: With Remarks on Their Economy, Volume 1

Frederick Law Olmsted - 1856 - 766 pages
...Berkeley and his successors.* He * Sir William Berkeley had gaid, being then Governor of Virginia : " I thank God there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years." At this time, when Boston contained five printing officw, and as many booksellers'...
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A Ramble Through the United States, Canada, and the West Indies

John Shaw (M.D.) - 1856 - 388 pages
...William, in the spirit of the aristocracy of the Tudors, " should pray often and preach less. But, 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;...
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