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Our Country: A History of the United States, from the Discovery of America ... - Page 315
by Benson John Lossing - 1905 - 2114 pages
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The Land We Live in: Or, The Story of Our Country

Henry Mann - United States - 1896 - 350 pages
...The character of Berkeley can best be judged by a communication which he sent to England in 1665 : "I thank God there are no free schools nor printing...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...
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An Appeal from the Judgments of Great Britain Respecting the United States ...

Robert Walsh - Public opinion Great Britain - 1819 - 574 pages
...the following characteristic 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, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them and libels against...
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The Analectic Magazine...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography ..., Volume 14

1819 - 532 pages
...parliament. ' I thank God, says this 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 and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them and libels against...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 13; Volume 31

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1820 - 636 pages
...following characteristic passage : — " I thank God we have no free schools, nor any printing ; and 1 hope we shall not have them these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them and libels against...
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Annals of the American Revolution: Or, A Record of the Causes and Events ...

Jedidiah Morse - Indians of North America - 1824 - 524 pages
...the following characteristic passage ; — " 1 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, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them and libels against...
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The History of the United States of North America, from the Plantation of ...

James Grahame - United States - 1836 - 486 pages
...Restoration. " I thank God," he says, " there are no free schools nor piinting ; and I hope we ^hall not have them these hundred years. For learning has...disobedience and sects into the world, and printing has ilivalged them, and libels against the best government: God keep us from both !"— f'haluiers. BOOK...
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Sermons Preached at the Annual Election

1836 - 538 pages
...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 into the world, and printing has divulged them and libels against...
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The New Englander, Volume 23

Criticism - 1864 - 752 pages
...abstained from education as from a Puritan vice. Says Governor Sir William Berkeley, in 1671 — " I thank God there are no free schools nor printing [in Virginia], 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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Religion in America, Or, An Account of the Origin, Progress, Relation to the ...

Robert Baird - Mormons - 1844 - 390 pages
...addressed to him by the Lords of Plantations, 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 into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against...
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Religion in America, Or, An Account of the Origin, Progress, Relation to the ...

Robert Baird - Latter Day Saints - 1844 - 372 pages
...him by the Lords of Plantations, says, " I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and 1 hope we shall not have them these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and seels into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against...
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