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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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The New Century Cyclopedia of Names, Volume 2

Clarence Lewis Barnhart - Biography - 1954 - 1482 pages
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Essex Worthies: A Biographical Companion to the County

Sir William Wilkinson Addison - Essex - 1973 - 238 pages
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The Cornhill Magazine

William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1896 - 876 pages
...one of the colleges at Cambridge, who when challenged about the object of his foundation answered, ' I have set an acorn which, when it becomes an oak, God only knows what may be the fruit thereof.' Perhaps in an ordinary way we do not sufficiently recognise...
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The Confidence of British Philosophers: An Essay in Historical Narrative

Arthur Quinn - Philosophy - 1977 - 328 pages
...erected a Puritan foundation." "No, madam," Mildmay 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." 1629, and in 1633 he became a fellow. In 1644 the Puritan parliament presented him with the office...
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Belief, Faith and Reason

John Addison Howard - Religion and sociology - 1981 - 136 pages
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The Statutes of Sir Walter Mildmay

Walter Mildmay - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 180 pages
...Queen told him, Sir Walter, 1 hear you have erected a Puritan Foundation. No, Madam, saith he, farre be it from me to countenance any thing contrary to your established Lawes, but I have set an Atorn, which when it becomes an Oake, God alone knows what will be the fruit...
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Tudor and Stuart Britain, 1471-1714

Roger Lockyer - History - 1985 - 504 pages
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Oxford and Cambridge

Christopher Brooke, Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke - History - 1988 - 422 pages
...have erected a Puritan foundation' - 'No, Madam, saith he, far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws, but I have set...becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.'10 S Brooke 1985. pp. 55-60: V. Nutton 1979. and his John Caius and the Manuscripts of Galen...
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Judgment and Sensibility: Religion and Stratification

E. Digby (Edward Digby) Baltzell - Social Science - 1994 - 330 pages
...said Sir Walter "to countenance anything contrary to your established laws, but I have set an acom, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof."20 The Church was, on the whole, understaffed with poorly trained ministers when Elizabeth...
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