Virginia Colonial Decisions, Volum 1

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The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2005 - 1580 pàgines

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Pàgina B-163 - if they would pray oftener and preach less. . . . 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, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both.
Pàgina B-85 - who (ever) shall dwell and inhabit within every and any of said several colonies and plantations, and every of their children .... shall have and enjoy all liberties, franchises and immunities within any of our other dominions, to all intents and purposes as if they had been abiding and born within this our realm of England.
Pàgina B-163 - we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both.
Pàgina B-173 - be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. . . . I will add that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors.
Pàgina B-103 - crotchetts, covered with rafts, sedge and earth," and " yet we had daily common prayer, morning and evening, every Sunday two sermons, and every three months the holy communion, till our minister (the Rev. Mr. Hunt) died; but our prayers daily, with an homily on Sundays, we continued two or three years after, till more preachers came,
Pàgina B-173 - It is a melancholy truth that a suppression of the Press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Nothing can be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. . . . I
Pàgina B-102 - achieve good success is to make yourselves all of one mind for the good of your country and your own, and to serve and fear God, the giver of all goodness ; for every plantation which our Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted out.'
Pàgina B-75 - learning for the most part be but superficial. They are more inclinable to read men by business and conversation than to dive into books, and are, for the most part, only desirous of learning what is absolutely necessary, in the shortest and best method. ... As for education, several are sent to England for it, though the
Pàgina B-88 - imitate and follow the policy of the form of government, laws, customs and manner of trial, and of the administration of justice used in the realm of England, as near as might be, as the Company itself was required to do by its charter. No law or ordinance was to continue in force or validity unless it was solemnly ratified

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