| 1850 - 638 pages
...we " shall not have them these hundred years. For learning has brought " heresy, and disobedience, and sects into the world, and printing has " divulged...against the best government. God keep us " from both." ' Such are two opposite views of the value of learning which still agitate the world ; and the question... | |
| James Wilson - Law - 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;...against the best government : God keep us from both !"•> By the court of Charles, this prayer was received mos.t graciously ; and, agreeably to its principle,... | |
| Henry Mann - United States - 1896 - 350 pages
...years ; for learning has brought heresy and disobedience and sects into the world, and printing hath divulged them and libels against the best government ; God keep us from both ! " It is not strange that a man who felt like this should have cared but little for the safety and... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1810 - 446 pages
...since the persecution in Cromwell's tiranny drove divers worthy men hither. But, I thank God, the re are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall...against the best government. God keep us from both ! CATALOGUE, OP NEW PUBLICATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES. FOR OCTOBER, 1810. Sunt bona; sunt quaetlaiu... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1810 - 874 pages
...tiranny drove divers worthy men hither. But, I thank God, there are no free schools, nor /irinting, and I hope we shall not have, these hundred years...against the best government. God keep us from both ! CATALOGUE, OF NEW PUBLICATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES. FOR OCTOBER, 1810. Snnt bonn, slint qiiatdum... | |
| David Ramsay - History - 1816 - 458 pages
...no free-schools, nor printing presses ; and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years : fop learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and...against the best government. God keep us from both."* The next college was established in Connecticut, and obtained its charter and endowments, in 1701.... | |
| Books - 1819 - 544 pages
...enlightened statesman, ' that we have no free schools nor any printing; and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience...against the best government. God keep us from both.' Education and printing however flourished in spite of the royal governors. As early as 1639 schools... | |
| Robert Walsh - Public opinion Great Britain - 1819 - 574 pages
...passage: — " I thank God we have no free schools, nor any printing; and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience,...against the best government: God keep us from both." Accordingly, every effort was made to shut out the pestilent tree of knowledge. On the appointment... | |
| North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1826 - 558 pages
...Cromwell's tyranny drove divers worthy men hither. Yet 1 thank God there are no free schools, nor printing. For learning has brought disobedience, and heresy,...against the best government. God keep us from both.' * This extraordinary doctrine was uttered by a governor of one of the most powerful provinces in America,... | |
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