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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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Heirs of Fame: Milton and Writers of the English Renaissance

Margo Swiss, David A. Kent - English literature - 1995 - 336 pages
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Academic Freedom in the Age of the College

Richard Hofstadter - Education - 2011 - 316 pages
...university studies. In 1628 all disputations on the Thirty-nine Elizabeth. "No, Madam," was the answer, "far be it from me to countenance any thing contrary to your established laws, but 1 have set an acorn, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof."...
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The Founding of Harvard College

Samuel Eliot Morison - Education - 1935 - 472 pages
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A Concise History of the University of Cambridge

E. S. Leedham-Green - Education - 1996 - 288 pages
...having established a puritan house in Cambridge: '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.' See below, p. 92. extended to the scrutiny and revision of college statutes. They seem to have encountered...
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Spurgeon: Heir of the Puritans

Ernest Bacon - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 196 pages
..."Madam," replied Sir Walter gravely, "far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to Your Majesty's established laws, but I have set an acorn which, when...becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit of it." Cambridge The fruit of Emmanuel College was Puritan teaching and Puritan ministers. Scores...
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A History of Emmanuel College, Cambridge

A. Sarah Bendall, Christopher Brooke, Patrick Collinson - Education - 1999 - 802 pages
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William Bridge

H. Rondel Rumburg - Religion - 2003 - 254 pages
...have 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. '"(45) Sir Walter's acorn did become a mighty oak. George Leon Walker wrote, "the vigour of Emmanuel's...
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William Bridge

H. Rondel Rumburg - Religion - 2003 - 253 pages
...have 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...becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.'"(45) Sir Walter's acorn did become a mighty oak. George Leon Walker wrote, "the vigour of...
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Cambridge: A Cultural and Literary History

Martin Garrett - Cambridge (England) - 2004 - 284 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." Between the foundation in January 1584 and the middle of the seventeenth century, Emmanuel did indeed...
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Cambridge: A Cultural and Literary History

Martin Garrett - History - 2004 - 284 pages
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