...few we could boart of since the persecution in Cromwell's tyranny drove pious, worthy men here. 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,...

...in Virginia, as late as 1671, Governor Berkeley said, — in a Report made to the Privy Council, — "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...

...maintaining free schools for the education of our children." Governor Berkeley, of Virginia, replied : " I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing,...hope we shall not have them these hundred years." The same difference of opinion concerning the value of schools continues between the Northern and Southern...

...proprietor of a large tract in Shenondoah 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 eects into the world, and...

...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 »nd secta into the world, and...

...no fear of them. There were 48 parishes, and the ministers were well paid. "But," adds the governor, "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...

...disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them.... Thank God here are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have, these hundred years." In 1683, Governor Effingham's order was " to allow no person to use a printing-press...

...William Berkley, then Governor of Virginia, expressed himself to the Lords Commissioners in these words : "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 ;...

...noble ambition, and had not yet ceased to override the limits in which he was satisfied to place it: "I thank God there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years." Although during some seasons, as the hotel register showed, three thousand people...

...William Berkley, then Governor of Virginia, expressed himself to the Lords Commissioners in these words : "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...