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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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America, Its Realities and Resources: Comprising Important Details ..., Volume 3

Francis Wyse - United States - 1846 - 482 pages
...the colonies, in 1671, sixty-four years after the settlement of Virginia, says, " I thank God we have no free schools nor printing ; and I hope we shall...printing has divulged them, and libels against the Government." The number of newspapers in this State, in 1810, was twenty-three ; one three times a...
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Dwight's American Magazine, Volume 2

Theodore Dwight - 1846 - 764 pages
...colonies, said, ll 1 thank God that we have not free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience...into the world; and printing has divulged them and the libel against the government. God keep us from both !" Lord Effingham who was appointed Governor...
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 13

1847 - 784 pages
...few that we could boast of, since the persecution in Cromwell's tyranny drove divers men hither. But I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing,...against the best government. God keep us from both !" The restoration, " the worst of all governments," had resulted in establishing an arbitrary and...
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Introduction to the History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia

Charles Campbell - History - 1847 - 220 pages
...few that we could boast of, since the persecution in Cromwell's tyranny drovedivers men hither. But I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing,...against the best government. God keep us from both 1" The restoration, " the worst of all governments," had resulted in establishing an arbi' О trary...
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The Southern and Western Literary Messenger and Review, Volume 13

1847 - 814 pages
...could explain, divers men hither. But I thank God, there ¡The danger now became so wide-spread and are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall...against the best government. God keep us from both !" The restoration, " the worst of all governments," had resulted in establishing an arbitrary and...
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The History of Sunday Schools and of Religious Education from the Earliest Times

Lewis Glover Pray - Religious education - 1847 - 288 pages
...the matter. " I thank God there are no free schools nor printers, 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 ! " This unquestionably was the real feeling of the arbitrary and bigoted government at home, and that...
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Introduction to the History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia

Charles Campbell - History - 1847 - 224 pages
...few that we could boast of, since the persecution in Cromwell's tyranny drove divers men hither. But I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing,...years ; for learning has brought disobedience and hereand sects into the world, and printing has divulged them and libels against the best government....
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American History: Comprising Historical Sketches of the Indian Tribes: A ...

Marcius Willson - Indians of North America - 1847 - 732 pages
...In я letter descriptive of the state of that province, gome years after the Restoration, he says, " I thank God there are no free schools nor printing...have these hundred years. For learning has brought heresy, and disobeANALYSIS, dienoe, and sects into the world ; and printing divulges them, and " commits...
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Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the Year ...

New-York Historical Society - New York (State) - 1821 - 422 pages
...there are no free schools nor printing presses here ; and, I hope, that we shall not have them here these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience...and heresy and sects into the world, and printing hath divulged them in libels against the best governments. God keep us from both."8 Such was the general...
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The North American Review, Volume 67

North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1848 - 544 pages
...blessing, he thus truly and fitly reveals the vital element of loyalty to an arbitrary government : — "I thank God there are no free schools nor printing,...against the best government. God keep us from both ! " The only interest taken in the Colonies by the government at home — perhaps it is the only interest...
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