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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 History and Government of the United States - Page 858
by Jacob Harris Patton, John Lord - 1903
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The Works of the Honourable James Wilson, L. L. D.: Late One of ..., Volume 2

James Wilson - 1804 - 514 pages
...governour, we find the following one, too extraordinary to be passed without particular notice. *' 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...
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The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from ...

Virginia, William Waller Hening - 1810 - 616 pages
...worst sent or, since the persicutioo in Cromwell s tiranny drove di- over. vcrs worthy men hither. But, I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not ^°frfe "kotlt t. u I jici • iuu "or Printing :have these hundred years; tor learning has...
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A History of Virginia from Its Discovery Till the Year 1781: With ...

John Wilson Campbell - 1813 - 322 pages
...that we can boast of since the persecution in Cromwell's tyranny drove divers worthy men hither. Yet 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 Y2 into...
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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...
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The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, Volume 2

John Winthrop - 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...
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The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the ..., Volumes 5-6

1834 - 718 pages
...and once a fellow of Merlon College, in Oxford University,) to the Committee for the Colonies : — "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...
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The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge

1834 - 362 pages
...once a fellow of Merlon College, in Oxford University,) to the Committee for the Colonies : — "1 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...
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Sermons Preached at the Annual Election

1836 - 538 pages
...Virginia, who, in an official communication to the lords of the committee of the colonies, says, " I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects...
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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 ; and I hope we shall not have, these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects...
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History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American ..., Volume 2

George Bancroft - 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 ; and I hope we shall not have, these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects...
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