 | William Henry Foote - Virginia - 1850 - 584 pages
...taken in England out of the towns ; every man according to his ability instructing his children. But I thank God there are no free schools nor printing,...libels against the best government, God keep us from them both." This opinion of the Governor was no idle abstraction ; for in February, 1682, according... | |
 | William Henry Foote - Virginia - 1850 - 582 pages
...taken in England out of the towns ; every man according to his ability instructing his children. But I thank God there are no free schools nor printing,...libels against the best government, God keep us from them both." This opinion of the Governor was no idle abstraction; for in February, 1682, according... | |
 | William Maxwell - Virginia - 1850 - 502 pages
...Cromwell's tiranny drove divers worthy men hither. But, I thank God, there are no free schools nor priuting, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years ;...disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printiug has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both !* * Mr.... | |
 | Don C. Locke - Psychology - 1998 - 260 pages
...insisted. "1 thank God that there are no free schools nor printing and 1 hope we shall not have these for a hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience,...against the best government. God keep us from both" (Stilgoe, 1 982, p. 242). 1 hope that one result of this work will be obedience to a new set of principles,... | |
 | Roy Nash - History - 1968 - 512 pages
...aristocracy: a monopoly of learning; cheap labor; an inarticulate mass that is easy to manipulate. "I thank God there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have any these hundred years," said Governor Berkeley of Virginia, undoubtedly speaking for the landed aristocracy... | |
 | Robert S. Peck - Computers - 2000 - 236 pages
...God, there are no free schools nor printing [in Virginia], and I hope we shall not have these [for a] hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience,...libels against the best government. God keep us from both.6 Today, the overwhelming issue is sexual content — and the Internet has, as it has done with... | |
 | History - 1957 - 168 pages
...Governor Berkeley of Virginia wrote in 1671, "I thank God there are no free schools or printing ... for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and...printing has divulged them, and libels against the government." The sons of wealthy planters were sent to England to be educated; their daughters got... | |
 | David Hackett Fischer, James C. Kelly - History - 2000 - 388 pages
...constrained. The repressive spirit of its government was captured in Sir Williams immortal diatribe: "I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing,...libels against the best government. God keep us from both!"47 Berkeley's outburst was not a private prejudice. It became an official policy in the colony,... | |
 | Frederic Hudson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 436 pages
...governor of that province for nearly forty years, said in 1661, " I thank God we have no free-schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred...heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has devulged them and libels against the government." Another distinguished governor of that state, the... | |
 | Hugh Amory, David D. Hall - Business & Economics - 2000 - 676 pages
...linked the stability of church and state to the absence of printers and free (Latin) schools: "But I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these [for a] hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world,... | |
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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.... 
