| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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