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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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The Register of Pennsylvania: Devoted to the Preservation of Facts ..., Volume 9

Samuel Hazard - Pennsylvania - 1832 - 446 pages
...twenty-third report upon Virginia, sixtyfour years after the settlement of that province, "we have no free schools, nor printing; and I hope we shall...world; and printing has divulged them, and libels upon the government. God keep us from both." The early writers of provincial Pennsylvania, poetic and...
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The Annals of America: From the Discovery by Columbus in the Year ..., Volume 1

Abiel Holmes - America - 1829 - 612 pages
...drove divers worthy men hither. Yet, I thank God, there are no free-schools, nor printing ; and I nope we shall not have, these hundred years. For learning...against the best government : God keep us from both ! " 1 Chalmers, b. 1. 362. » Memoirs of Evelyn, i. 488. Evelyn himself was one of the Board. " What...
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The Friend, Volume 1

Robert Smith - Society of Friends - 1829 - 432 pages
...time 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 have these hundred years. For learnng has brought disobedience, and heresy, ind sects into the world; and printing has divulged them...
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The History of North Carolina from the Earliest Period, Volume 1

François-Xavier Martin - Constitutional history - 1829 - 472 pages
...Cromwell's tyranny drove divers worthy men hither. Yet, I thank God, there are no free schools, and no printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years: for leearning has brought disobedience, heresy, and sects, into the world, and printing has divulged them,...
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Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania, Volume 6

Pennsylvania - 1831 - 586 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 bolh."-)The first preceptor in the Friend's public school...
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An American Biographical and Historical Dictionary: Containing an Account of ...

William Allen - Electronic books - 1832 - 820 pages
...tyranny drove divers worthy men hither. Yet I thank God, there are no free schools, nor printing ; &I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning...divulged them and libels against the best government." Thus Sir William, of a very different spirit from the early governors of New England, seems to have...
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An American Biographical and Historical Dictionary: Containing an Account of ...

William Allen - North America - 1832 - 816 pages
...tyranny drove divers worthy men hither. Yet I thank God, there are no free schools, nor printing ; &I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience, and keresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them and libels against the best government"...
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a ..., Volume 1

Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 564 pages
...times create universal astonishment, — "I thank God (says he) there are no 1 1 Hcnning, Stat. 2'JO. free schools nor printing; and I hope we shall not...against the best government. God keep us from both." 1 In 1680 a remarkable change was made in the colonial jurisprudence, by taking all judicial power...
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a ..., Volume 1

Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 540 pages
...times create universal astonishment, — "I thank God (says he) there are no 1 1 Henning, Stat. 290. free schools nor printing ; and I hope we shall not...libels against the best government. God keep us from both."1 In 1680 a remarkable change was made in the colonial jurisprudence, by taking all judicial...
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The American Monthly Magazine, Volume 3

1837 - 1322 pages
...Colonies in England in the following disgraceful manner : ' I thank God, there are no free schools or printing ; and I hope we shall not have, these hundred...divulged them, and libels against the best government.' But (as might well have been expected) after the declaration of independence, education seems to have...
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