 It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times by persuading from the use of tongues, that so at...  Democratic Education Stretched Thin - Page 112007 - 260 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Edwin Grant Dexter - Education - 1904 - 692 pages
...of this order, if by fair means and former instructions they will not be drawn unto it." Schools " 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... | |
 | John Fiske - Elections - 1904 - 390 pages
...school committee. In 1647 the legislature of Massachusetts enacted a law with the following preamble : " It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from t^g knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 360 pages
...Commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors, it is therefore ordered by this Court and authority thereof, that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to fifty householders, shall then i forthwith appoint one within their towns to teach all such children... | |
 | Carlos Slafter - Education - 1905 - 340 pages
...though pleasing to antiquarians, are no help to the one who is reading for information. STATUTE OF 1647. It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan,...to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times by persuading from... | |
 | James Schouler - United States - 1906 - 344 pages
...English vernacular as the compend of liberal culture, opposed to the practice of the mediseval church; "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." And since the English system of parochial schools... | |
 | Paul Monroe - Education - 1907 - 476 pages
...setts Bay Colony. The oft-quoted preamble to that law indi- of the same cates the dominant motive. " 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 later times, by persuading them... | |
 | Harlan Updegraff - Education - 1907 - 200 pages
...often quoted and well known, yet it must again be repeated here : " It being one of the chief projects of that old deluder Satan to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times by persuading from... | |
 | Paul Monroe - Education - 1907 - 466 pages
...that law indi- of the same cates the dominant motive. " It being one chief project of jn^ueTrcs' 0 ' 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 later times, by persuading them... | |
 | Frank Sargent Hoffman - Civilization - 1908 - 420 pages
...1647 by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The preamble to the law shows at once its dominant motive: " 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 . . . ; and to the end that learning may not... | |
 | Frank Sargent Hoffman - Civilization - 1908 - 434 pages
...1647 by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The preamble to the law shows at once its dominant motive: " 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 . . . ; and to the end that learning may not... | |
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