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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.... "
The Works of the Honourable James Wilson, L. L. D.: Late One of the ... - Page 235
by James Wilson - 1804
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Analectic Magazine, and Naval Chronicle, Volume 14

Books - 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...
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An Appeal from the Judgments of Great Britain Respecting the United States ...

Robert Walsh - Public opinion Great Britain - 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...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 13; Volume 31

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1820 - 636 pages
...passage : — " I thank God we have no free schools, nor any printing ; and 1 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...
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The North American Review, Volume 23

North American review and miscellaneous journal - 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,...
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Miscellanies Selected from the Public Journals, Volume 1

American literature - 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...
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Annals of the American Revolution: Or, A Record of the Causes and Events ...

Jedidiah Morse - Indians of North America - 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...
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Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Volume 1

Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Bibliography - 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...
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The North American Review, Volume 23

Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 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,...
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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, more than the editor...
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The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, Volume 2

John Winthrop - Massachusetts - 1826 - 440 pages
...before, when he was quite a young man. . Berkeley's letter to England, in 1671, in which he says, "1 thank God, there are no free schools, nor printing...and I hope we shall not have these hundred years," has been often subject of remark. No man in the world can differ from hia reasons, more than the editor...
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