...disturbed their pleasant condition. The Indians of Maine were corrupted with false glosses of deceivers — to the end that learning may not be buried in the...and commonwealth the Lord assisting our endeavors : it is therefore ordered, that when any town shall increase to the number of 100 families or householders,...

...chief project of Satan to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures," as the statute says; but also to the end, "that learning may not be buried in the...of our forefathers in Church and Commonwealth." The present system contains : "1. The Primary Schools — each taught by one female teacher, elected annually,...

...little need we wonder to rind that it was, in 1647, regulated in general court, in Massachusetts, ' To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in Church and State, that every township of fifty householders should appoint a public school for the instruction...

...clouded with false glosses of saint seeming deceivers ; and that learning may not be buried in the "rave of our forefathers, in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors: " It « therefore ordered by thu court and authority thereof, That every township within this jurisdiction,...

...clouded with false glosses, of saint-seeming deceivers; and that learning may not bee buried in the grave of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors : It is therefore ordet ed by thit Courte and authority thereof, that every townshipp within this jurisdiction,...

...once placed in the clearest light. " It being," says the law, " one chief project of Satan to keep men from the knowledge of the Scripture by persuading...and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors, . . ."IT Here follow clauses establishing schools in every township, and obliging the inhabitants,...

...and meaning of the original might be clouded and corrupted with false glosses of deceivers, therefore to the end that learning may not be buried in the...and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors, it is ordered by this Court, and the authority thereof, that every township," &c. By this school law,...

...and meaning of the original might be clouded and corrupted with false glosses of deceivers, therefore to the end that learning may not be buried in the...and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors, it is ordered by this Court, and the authority thereof, that every township," &c. By this school law,...

...sense and meaning of the original might be clouded and corrupted with false glosses of deceivers ; to the end that learning may not be buried in the...and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors ; "It is therefore ordered by this court and the authority thereof, that every township within this...

...children and apprentices so much learning as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue." " To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers," it was ordered in all the Puritan colonies, " that every township, after the Lord hath increased them...