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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.... "
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1895
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The Book of the Colonies: Comprising a History of the Colonies Composing the ...

John Frost - 1846 - 336 pages
...most determined resistance to the diffusion of knowledge, even in its most elementary form, saying, " 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...
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America, Its Realities and Resources: Comprising Important Details ..., Volume 3

Francis Wyse - 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 not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged...
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American History: Comprising Historical Sketches of the Indian Tribes: A ...

Marcius Willson - 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...and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought heresy, and disobeANALYSIS, dienoe, and sects into the world ; and printing...
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Introduction to the History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia

Charles Campbell - 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, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience and hereand sects into the world, and printing has divulged...
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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, 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...
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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 not have these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged...
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The North American Review, Volume 67

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, 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...
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The History of the Church of England in the Colonies and Foreign ..., Volume 2

James Stuart Murray Anderson - 1848 - 796 pages
...we could boast of, since the persecution in Cromwell's tiranny 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 printing has divulged...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 1

1848 - 544 pages
...the government of Sir William Berkeley, well known for his famous apostrophe — "I thank God we have 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...
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Exercises in Rhetorical Reading: With a Series of Introductory Lessons ...

Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pages
...extraordinary declaration of Sir William Berkeley, then Governor of Virginia, to the Lords Commissioners : — "I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years ; for learning has brought 30 disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged...
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