| Heman Humphrey - 1839 - 34 páginas
...measures are employed to prevent it. The Colonial Legislature of Massachusetts regarded it "as the chief project of Satan" to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures ; and to baffle him in this crafty scheme, they established common schools where all children might... | |
| George Punchard - 1840 - 254 páginas
...declaring, in the quaint language of the day, that, ' It being one chief object of that • old deceiver, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times, keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times, by persuading them from the use of tongues, so that at... | |
| George Punchard - 1840 - 240 páginas
...declaring, in the quaint language of the day, that, ' It being one chief object of that old deceiver, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times, keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times, by persuading them from the use of tongues, so that at... | |
| John Dunmore Lang - 1840 - 504 páginas
...preamble, which one can scarcely suppose could have originated otherwise than in clerical suggestion : " It being one chief project of Satan to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, by dissuading from the use of tongues ; and to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves... | |
| 1840 - 760 páginas
...to admit this, let the preamble to their law for public education be cited from the code of 1650 : ' It being one chief project of Satan to keep men from ' the knowledge of the Scripture by dissuading from the use of ' tongues, and to the end that learning may not be buried in... | |
| Henry Stuart Foote - 1841 - 330 páginas
...of the American civilization is at once placed in the clearest light. " It being," says the law, " one chief project of Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the scriptures by persuading from the use of tongues, to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of... | |
| 1842 - 554 páginas
...which we copy for the sake of its quaint phraseology. " It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times, keeping them in an unknown tongue, so, in these latter times, by persuading them from the use of tongues, so that at... | |
| 1842 - 576 páginas
...which we copy for the sake of its quaint phraseology. " It being one chief project of that old dcluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times, keeping them in an unknown tongue, so, in these latter times, by persuading them from the use of tongues, so that at... | |
| 1842 - 546 páginas
...under the head of "schools," we find as follows : " It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the scriptures, as in former times, keeping them in an unknown tongue, so, in these latter times, by persuading them from the use of tongues, so that,... | |
| Joshua Coffin - 1845 - 452 páginas
...section of the act of May, 1647, is worthy of perpetual remembrance, and is therefore here inserted. ' It being one chief project of Satan to keep men from the knowledge of the scripture, as in former times keeping them in unknown tongues, so in these latter times persuading... | |
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