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" far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws; but I have set an acorn, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof. "
The General Biographical Dictionary - Page 154
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Messenger of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Volume 45

1906 - 838 pages
...Madam; far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws ; but I have planted an acorn which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." The acorn nevertheless grew into a very Puritan oak, for as time went on the Puritanism of Emmanuel...
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The Independent Church of Westminster Abbey, 1650-1826

Ira Boseley - Congregational churches - 1907 - 332 pages
...Puritan Foundation " ; to which he replied, " No, madam ! far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws, but I have set an acorn which, when it becomes an oak, God knows what will be the fruit thereof." " In spite, however, of Court jealousies he was appointed for...
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John Harvard and His Times

Henry Charles Shelley - Puritans - 1907 - 414 pages
...Mildmay, and hence the fence of his ready reply: "No, Madam, far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws; but I have set an acorn which, when it becomes an oak fj0<^ ^'one knows what will be the fruit thereof." Puritan foundation, however, Emmanuel was, and that,...
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Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Issue 17

1914 - 750 pages
...erected a Puritan foundation." "No, madam", he replied ; "far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws ; but I have set...oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." Harvard has been glad to think of itself as one of the fruits of Emmanuel. At home it promptly took...
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Lancelot Andrewes and the Reaction

Douglas Macleane - 1910 - 286 pages
...have erected a puritan foundation." "No, madam," sayth he, " far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws. But I have set...oak God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." (Fuller.) 3 Brief 'Lives, ed. Clark, i. 29, 30. In the Martin Marprelate Epistle it is asked, "Who...
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English Influence on the United States

William Cunningham - England - 1916 - 198 pages
...might have used the words of Sir Walter Mildmay, the founder of Emmanuel, who claimed that "he had set an acorn which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof 1 ." John Harvard was anxious that the young men of the Bay State should have the opportunity of coming...
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English Influence on the United States

William Cunningham - Great Britain - 1916 - 190 pages
...might have used the words of Sir Walter Mildmay, the founder of Emmanuel, who claimed that "he had set an acorn which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof1." John Harvard was anxious that the young men of the Bay State should have the opportunity...
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England

Findlay Muirhead - England - 1920 - 938 pages
...Sir Walter Mildmay. " I have set an acorn," he replied to Queen Elizabeth's charge of Puritanism, " which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." It occupies the site and incorporated the buildings of a 13th cent. Dominican priory, but its present...
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Cambridge and Its Colleges

Alexander Hamilton Thompson - 1920 - 418 pages
...founding his college, Elizabeth taxed him with erecting a Puritan foundation. " No, Madam," he answered, " far be it from me to countenance any thing contrary...oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." Mildmay was a Christ's man, and a benefactor of his College ; and the Christ's man whom he chose as...
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Towns of New England and Old England, Ireland and Scotland ..., Part 1

State Street Trust Company (Boston, Mass.) - Cities and towns - 1920 - 234 pages
...accused him of having erected a Puritan foundation, "No, Madam, far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws, but I have set...oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." Although " In vain the delving antiquary tries To find the tomb where generous Harvard lies," nevertheless...
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