 of her income was expended in public schools. The Governor of Virginia replied : " I thank God that there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years." As a result, in 1860 three-fourths of the children of Connecticut...  Outlook and Independent - Page 6581914Full view - About this book
 | Henry Alexander Wise - 1872 - 332 pages
...boast of, since the persecution in Cromwell's tyranny drove divers worthy men hither. 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 into the world, and... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1872 - 552 pages
...power had made a tyrant, expressed the common sentiment of this royalist legislature, when he said, " I thank God that there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope that we shall not have them these hundred years." 176. With such a government the people were justly... | |
 | John Seeley Hart - 1872 - 302 pages
...the world over as the land of schoolmasters. The Governor of the other colony replied, " I thank God, there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have, these hundred years." To this policy she also has until lately only too faithfully adhered. Now what... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1873 - 786 pages
...instruction in the colony, would in our times create universal astonishment. " I thank God," says he, " 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... | |
 | 1974 - 448 pages
...in correspondence to his lords commissioners, Governor Berkeley, of Virginia, wrote: "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... | |
 | Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, Jay E. Daily - 1978 - 520 pages
...classes was the famous remark of the royal governor of Virginia, Sir William Berkeley: "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,... | |
 | John R. Stilgoe - 1982 - 454 pages
...reported to the Commissioners of Trade and Plantations that education languished. “But, I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these for a hundred years,” Berkeley wrote, “for learning has brought disobedience and heresy,... | |
 | Michael G. Hall - 1988 - 460 pages
...insecure. One recalls the remark of Sir William Berkeley, Governor of Virginia, in 1671: “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... | |
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