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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
edited by - 1815
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Ecclesiastical History of England: From the Opening of the Long ..., Volume 1

John Stoughton - England - 1867 - 564 pages
...erected a Puritan foundation." He replied : "No, madam ; 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."2 The fruit proved Puritan to the heart's core ; and the fact is commemorated in a satire...
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Ecclesiastical History of England: From the Opening of the Long ..., Volume 1

John Stoughton - England - 1867 - 580 pages
...erected a Puritan foundation." He replied : "No, madam ; 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."2 The fruit proved Puritan to the heart's core ; and the fact is commemorated in a satire...
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Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Ballads and Romances, Volume 3

Thomas Percy - 1868 - 656 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...oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.' " John Gifford, Ezekiel Culverwell, Jeremiah Burroughs, Stephen Marshall, Thomas Shephard, Nathaniel...
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The Literary World, Volume 26

Books - 1882 - 462 pages
...erected a Puritan foundation." "No, madam," was his reply. " 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." It was while this oak was still a sapling, that Whichcote, took his degree at Emmanuel in 1629, about...
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Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Ballads and Romances, Volume 3

Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1868 - 650 pages
...erected a Puritan foundation.' ' Xo, madam,' saith he, ' far be it from me to countenance any tiling contrary to your established laws; but I have set...God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.'" John GifTord, Ezekiel Culverwell, Jeremiah Burroughs, Stephen Marshall, Thomas Shephard, Nathaniel...
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Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy in England in the Seventeenth ...

John Tulloch - Cambridge Platonists - 1872 - 526 pages
...erected a Puritan foundation." " No, madam," was his reply, " 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." l Whichcote took his degree of BA in 1629, and of MA in 1633, and in the latter year became fellow...
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The Norfolk garland: a collection of the superstitious beliefs and practices ...

John Glyde - Ballads, English - 1872 - 526 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.' " John Gifford, Ezekiel Culverwell, Jeremiah Burroughes, Stephen Marshall, Thomas Shepherd, Nathaniel...
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Memoirs of the court of queen Elizabeth. Repr. of the 6th ed

Lucy Aikin - 1872 - 564 pages
...him ; ' Sir Walter, I hear you have erected a puritan foundation.' — ' No, madam,' replied he, ' far be it from me to countenance any thing contrary...established laws ; but I have set an acorn, which, when it comes to be an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit of it.' That this fruit however proved to...
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The Norfolk Garland: A Collection of the Superstitious Beliefs and Practices ...

John Glyde (jr) - Ballads, English - 1872 - 428 pages
...Madam,' saith he, ' far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws ; bat I have set an acorn, which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.' " John Gifford, Ezekiel Culverwell, Jeremiah Burronghes, Stephen Marshall, Thomas Shepherd, Nathaniel...
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Oxford and Cambridge: Their Colleges, Memories, and Associations

Frederick Arnold - 1873 - 418 pages
...erected a Puritan foundation?" "No, madam," was his reply: "far 'tis 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, writing in 1634, says: "Sure I am, at this day it hath overshadowed all the Universities, more...
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