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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 History of the United States of North America, from the Plantation of ...

James Grahame - United States - 1836 - 486 pages
...For learning has brought heresy and disobedience and sects into the world, and printing has ilivalged them, and libels against the best government: God keep us from both !"— f'haluiers. BOOK Sir William Berkeley from his retirement, declared him the only governor whom...
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A history of the United States, Volume 2

George Bancroft - 1837 - 496 pages
...William, in the spirit of the aristocracy of the Tudors, " should pray oftener and preach less. But, I thank God, there are no free schools, nor printing...against the best government. God keep us from both." Thus, in addition to the difficulties which the degraded caste of servants encountered in their endeavors...
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The American Monthly Magazine, Volume 3; Volume 9

American literature - 1837 - 660 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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History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American ..., Volume 2

George Bancroft - United States - 1839 - 494 pages
...William, in the spirit of the aristocracy of the Tudors, " should pray oftener and preach less. But, I thank God, there are no free schools, nor printing...against the best government God keep us from both." Thus, in addition to the difficulties which the degraded caste of servants encountered in their endeavors...
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The Farmers' Register, Volume 7

Edmund Ruffin - Agriculture - 1839 - 830 pages
...there are no free schools пот printing, and I hope we shall not have, these hundred years ; lor learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and...against the best government. God keep us from both ! [The same hostility to the introduction of printing which was manifested by Sir. William Berkeley,...
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The Ladies' Companion, Volumes 11-12

1839 - 630 pages
...for as Sir William Berkely has truly said in his official report, ' learning has brought sedition, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing...divulged them and libels against the best government*.' " " And if printing should be suppressed," said young Andros, " your purpose, which I take to be that...
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Ladies Companion and Literary Expositor: A Monthly Magazine ..., Volumes 11-12

1839 - 656 pages
...for as Sir William Bcrkely has truly said in hid official report, ' learning : has brought sedition, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them and libels against the best governments.' " " And if printing should bo suppressed," said young Andros, " your purpo.se, which...
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A Discourse on the Latest Form of Infidelity

Andrews Norton - Apologetics - 1839 - 844 pages
...same mind as the king's governor of Virginia, who said, in an official despatch, " I thank God, that there are no free schools nor printing ; and I hope we shall not have, these hundred years." The enlightened men, who crossed the seas to seek an asylum and a home in the wilderness of New England,...
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The Ladies' Companion, Volume 11

1839 - 330 pages
...for as Sir William Berkely has truly said in his official report, ' learning has brought sedition, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them and libels ngainst the best governments.' " " And if printing should be suppressed," said young Andros, " your...
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Religion and Education in America: With Notices of the State and Prospects ...

John Dunmore Lang - Africa - 1840 - 494 pages
...that colony, by the Lords of Plantations, " I thank God," (for it was an age of abounding piety,) " there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope...against the best government. God keep us from both !"* The pious Matthew Henry observes, as my excellent mother used to remind me, that " we ought to...
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