| Hugh Amory, David D. Hall - 2000 - 676 páginas
...linked the stability of church and state to the absence of printers and free (Latin) schools: "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,... | |
| John H. Lienhard - 2003 - 276 páginas
...are no free schools nor printing [in Virginia]; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy... and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both.4 Not until i730 did a Virginia governor let a printer set up shop in William sburg. Almost immediately... | |
| Stephen Adams - 2001 - 326 páginas
...general population" (347). Indeed, in a notorious statement around 1670 Governor Berkeley boasted, "But, I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing,...against the best government. God keep us from both!" (Hening 2:517). Locating the college at Middle Plantation marked the continuing eclipse of Jamestown.... | |
| Dickson D. Bruce - 2001 - 396 páginas
...Virginia governor William Berkeley showed one side of such attitudes in his well-known 1671 remark that "I thank God there are no free schools nor printing,...disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world." As the historian Richard Brown has shown, such views remained alive through the eighteenth century.... | |
| Máire Messenger Davies - 2001 - 194 páginas
...Berkeley writing in 1 67 1 did not agree with him: I thank God there are no free schools or printing ... for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and...against the best Government. God keep us from both. (Sir William Berkeley, Governor of Virginia, 1671, quoted in Starker, 1991, p. 39) No other medium,... | |
| Alphonso Trumpbour Clearwater - 2001 - 717 páginas
...be particularly concerned about them after he came to America. In 1671 Sir William Berkeley wrote: "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... | |
| Peter Bridges - 2002 - 308 páginas
...William Berkeley had thanked God in 1671 that there were neither free schools nor printing in Virginia, "for learning has brought disobedience and heresy...printing has divulged them and libels against the government."5 The first Virginia newspaper, The Virginia Gazette, began publication in Williamsburg... | |
| Alan Taylor - 2002 - 548 páginas
...shall not have these [for a] hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy . . . into the world, and printing has divulged them, and...against the best government. God keep us from both!" Berkeley cultivated a following among the wealthiest and most ambitious planters. His favorites monopolized... | |
| Lisa French - 2003 - 112 páginas
...focus on public education. The governor of Virginia said, in 1670, "I thank God there are in Virginia no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have, for learning hath brought disobedience . . . into the world." Main Idea Details Conditions in Colonial... | |
| Theophilus Parsons - 2004 - 762 páginas
...establish schools as soon as possible. But the royal governor of Virginia, writing in 1761, says : " I thank God there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have any these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world,... | |
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