 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....  Initial Studies in American Letters - Seite 13von Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 282 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Jacob Richards Dodge - 1865 - 282 Seiten
...proprietor of a large tract in Shenandoah valley, eighty years ago, wrote of the new country as follows : " 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... | |
 | Elliot G. Storke - 1865 - 818 Seiten
...Berkeley, of Va., was an early representative, who, in 1671, said, in a report to the Privy Councils, "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... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1866 - 712 Seiten
...being known 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 only too faithfully adhered. Now what is the result? By referring to the... | |
 | Edward Duffield Neill - 1867 - 128 Seiten
...we would boast of, since the persecution of Cromwell's tyranny drove divers worthy men hither. But I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing; and I hope we Ishall not have, these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects... | |
 | Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, Jay E. Daily - 1978 - 520 Seiten
...ruling 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, and... | |
 | John R. Stilgoe - 1982 - 454 Seiten
...colony governor 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, and sects... | |
 | Michael G. Hall - 1988 - 460 Seiten
...governments felt 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 printing has divulged... | |
 | Jeffery A. Smith - 1990 - 246 Seiten
...expressed deep-seated anxieties about the impact of the press. "I thank God, there are no freeschools, nor printing; and I hope we shall not have, these hundred years," Virginia's governor, William Berkeley, reported to his London superiors in 1671. "For learning has... | |
 | Hazel Dicken Garcia - 1989 - 356 Seiten
...1909): 137. Governor Berkeley of Virginia wrote his superiors in 1671: "But, I thank God, we have not 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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