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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.... "
Peculiar: A Tale of the Great Transition - Page 60
by Epes Sargent - 1864 - 500 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 92

1850 - 638 pages
...written after the restoration of Charles the Second : — ' " I thank God there are no free schools or printing, and I hope we " shall not have them these hundred years. For learning has brought " heresy, and disobedience, and sects into the world, and printing has " divulged...
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The Works of the Honourable James Wilson, L. L. D.: Late One of ..., Volume 2

James Wilson - 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; and, I hope, we shall not have, these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world ;...
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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 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 not have, these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and...
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A History of Virginia from Its Discovery Till the Year 1781: With ...

John Wilson Campbell - 1813 - 322 pages
...that we can boast of since the persecution in Cromwell's tyranny drove divers worthy men hither. Yet 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 Y2 into the world,...
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Analectic Magazine, and Naval Chronicle, Volume 14

1819 - 544 pages
...parliament. ' I thank God, says this 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 and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged...
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An Appeal from the Judgments of Great Britain Respecting the United States ...

Robert Walsh - 1819 - 574 pages
...1671, there is the following characteristic 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, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged...
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Miscellanies Selected from the Public Journals, Volume 1

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 not have these hundred years : for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and...
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Annals of the American Revolution: Or, A Record of the Causes and Events ...

Jedidiah Morse - 1824 - 524 pages
...there is the following characteristic 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, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged...
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The history of New England from 1630 to 1649. With notes by J. Savage, Volume 2

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,...
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