| American Antiquarian Society - United States - 1874 - 522 pages
...of Virginia, says, " I thank God we have not free schools nor printing; and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience...printing has divulged them and libels against the government. God keep us from both." 1 I had heard many years since, that printing, at an early period... | |
| Ezra Slocum Carr - Agricultural societies - 1875 - 510 pages
...in 1641, to the home government. "But I thank God," he says, "there are no free schools or printing, for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and...printing has divulged them, and libels against the Uest government. God keep us from both." At first, the virgin soil amply repaid the labors of the husbandman.... | |
| Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1875 - 448 pages
...painful record : " I thank God there are no free scJwols, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience...sects into the world, and printing has divulged them God keep us from both ! " 2 Thus spoke Massachusetts, and thus spoke Virginia, in that ancient day.... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1876 - 878 pages
...England in 1671, "Thank God there are no free schools nor printing press; and I hope we shall not have these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience,...and sects into the world, and printing has divulged these, and libels against the best government" Despots are always afraid of the printing press, for... | |
| Francis Samuel Drake - America - 1876 - 1042 pages
..." Thank God ! there arc no free schools nor printing-presses ; and I hope there will be none for a hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience...and sects into the world, and printing has divulged these and other libels." He wrote two plays, and is the nuthor of " A Description of Virginia," folio,... | |
| Richard Hildreth - United States - 1877 - 590 pages
...worthy men hither. But 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,...printing has divulged them, and libels against the h°:t government : God keep us from both !" 1372 No opposition appears to have been made in Virginia... | |
| Education - 1877 - 972 pages
...men hither. But, 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,...the world, and printing has divulged them and libels agaiust the best government." Notwithstanding this splenitive declaration of the aged governor, in... | |
| Henry Barnard - Education - 1877 - 982 pages
...men hither. But, I thank God, there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have th a book entitled ' Essays to Do Oood,' which I think...written by your father. It had been so little regarde hae divulged them and libels against the best government." Notwithstanding this splenitive declaration... | |
| Edward Howland - Canada - 1877 - 848 pages
...Lords. He wrote : " I thank God \vc have no free schools, or printing; and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God defend us from both." The... | |
| William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - United States - 1878 - 762 pages
...printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience into the world, and printing has divulged them and libels against the best governments. God keep us from both." From 1G60 to 1676 there was no election of representatives to... | |
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