 | Stephen Charnock - 1864 - 598 pages
...Cambridge.' ' Madam,' said Sir Walter, 'far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your Majesty's established laws ; but I have set an acorn which,...oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.' In 1641, it had 204 students attending, standing next to St John's and Trinity in respect of numbers... | |
 | William Everett - 1865 - 418 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." " And," says Fuller, who tells the story, writing in 1634, " Sure I am at this day it hath overshadowed... | |
 | 1868 - 716 pages
...Puritan foundation.' To which he replied, ' No, madam, far be it from ВД to countenance anything contrary to your established laws ; but I have set...oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.' " Emmanuel College soon became an oak, and one of its fruits was a school at Newtown. Massachusetts... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - Religion - 1866 - 562 pages
...have erected a Puritan foundation." " No, Madam," saith he ; " far be from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws; but I have set...acorn which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows can scarcely err in finding in this choice confirmation of Puritanparentage. The entry is as follows... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - Religion - 1866 - 566 pages
...Madam," saith he ; " far be from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws , hut I have set an acorn which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knowa can scarcely err in finding in this choice confirmation of Puritanparentage. The entry is as... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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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. 
