| 1879 - 632 pages
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| Hugh James Rose - Biography - 1848 - 528 pages
...erected a puritan foundation.' ' No madam,' saith he, ' far be it from me to countenance any tiling contrary to your established laws ; but I have set...when it becomes an oak. God alone knows what will he the fruit thereof.1 " He had so much of the puritan about him, however, as to make the chapel stand... | |
| Alexander Wilson M'Clure - Christianity - 1848 - 638 pages
...queen charged him with having " erected a puritan foundation." In reply, he told her, that he had " set an acorn, which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit of it." And truly, it pleased God, that it should yield plenteous crops of puritan " hearts of oak,"... | |
| Joseph Alden - Puritans - 1849 - 188 pages
...puritan foundation." " No, madam," said he, " far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your laws : but I have set an acorn, which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit of it." The college became the nursery of puritanism. Many of the most useful and distinguished puritan... | |
| Bookbinding - 1850 - 528 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." On which Fuller remarks : " Sure I am at this day it hath overshadowed all the University — more... | |
| Hugh James Rose - Biography - 1853 - 528 pages
...queen told him, ' Sir Walter, I hear you have erected a puritan foundation.' 'No madam,' saith he, ' far be it from me to countenance any thing contrary...chapel stand north and south, instead of east and west. , MILE, or MILLE, (Francesco,) called Francisque, a painter, was born at Antwerp in 1644, and at an... | |
| William Henry Bartlett - Massachusetts - 1853 - 380 pages
...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...oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.' " Whatever might have been the property of the seedling, the fruit at least fully justified her Majesty's... | |
| 1904 - 748 pages
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| Joseph Farrand Tuttle - 1854 - 182 pages
...reply to Queen Elizabeth concerning the college he had founded : " I have set an acorn," said he, " which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." What better thing can we do for the country in the midst of which it is placed, and for Christ our... | |
| Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 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...oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." " Sure I am," adds Fuller, " at this day it hath overshadowed all the University, more than a moiety... | |
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