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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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Walks in London, Volume 1

Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - London (England) - 1901 - 412 pages
...made a Puritan foundation.' ' No, madam," he replied, ' 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 knows what will be the fruit thereof.' Sir Walter was one of the commissioners to Mary Queen of Scots...
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Life, Volume 40

American wit and humor - 1902 - 640 pages
...then have been said what Sir Walter Mlldmay. the founder of Emmanuel College, said to Queen Elizabeth. 'I have set an acorn which, when it becomes an oak. God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.' " is the Inscription at the back of the Harvard College plate In the historical series engraved for...
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Historical Lectures and Addresses

Mandell Creighton - England - 1903 - 416 pages
...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".1 Perhaps in an ordinary way we do not sufficiently recognise...
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Emmanuel College

Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh - 1904 - 296 pages
...that ' he had erected a Puritan foundation :' ' 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.' Still, he had in his mind to secure by his foundation something that he did not think could be got...
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The History of Carleton College: Its Origin and Growth, Environment and Builders

Delavan Levant Leonard - 1904 - 484 pages
...the queen said to him, " So, Sir Walter, I hear you have erected a Puritan foundation." He replied, " I have set an acorn which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." Ah, but he did himself know. Oaks bear acorns, not thistles, and acorns produce new oaks of the same...
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The English Illustrated Magazine, Volume 31

English periodicals - 1904 - 656 pages
...Elizabeth taunting him with having erected a Puritan Foundation. " I have," said Sir Walter Mildmay (1584), "set an acorn which when it becomes an oak God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." The date of this retort religious seems reflected in the wonderfully picturesque view of the "Olde...
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The Story of Cambridge

Charles William Stubbs - Cambridge (England) - 1905 - 432 pages
...erecting 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 therefrom." And Sir Walter Mildmay expressed no doubt truthfully what was his own intention as a founder,...
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Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of ..., Volume 1

United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1905 - 1356 pages
...Puritan foundation. He is said to have replied: '• No, madam, far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws, but I have set...when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will ba the fruit thereof." From the acorn thus planted sprang the first college of America, and so, in...
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Report of the Commissioner of Education, Volume 1

United States. Office of Education - Education - 1905 - 1340 pages
...Puritan foundation. He is said to have replied: " No, madam, 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 alono knows what will bo the fruit thereof." From the acorn thus planted sprang the first college of...
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The Connoisseur, Volume 16

Art - 1906 - 318 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...God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.'" But that the College did become a stronghold of the Puritans is proved by Fuller's comment on the above...
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