 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1872 - 566 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Cambridgeshire (England) - 1875 - 642 pages
...he replied to Queen Elizabeth, who told him she heard he had " erected a Puritan foundation " — " which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." Emmanuel did in effect remain strongly Puritan until at least the middle of the next century, but the... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1876 - 420 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.' "] Take off this chain, Neither Rome nor Spain Can resist my strong invasion. Boldly I preach, &c.... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - English periodicals - 1886 - 536 pages
...foundation." " No, Madam," replied Mildmay, significantly ; " far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws. But I have set...God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof."' (P. 31.) But if man did not know, he might give a shrewd guess as to what the fruits would be. Everything... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Teaching - 1876 - 524 pages
...said to Queen Elizabeth, who was suspicious of the puritan tendencies of some of the professors, " I have set an acorn, which, when it becomes an oak, God only knows what will be the fruit thereof." The fruit borne by this college was far from being acceptable... | |
 | Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - Congregational churches - 1877 - 676 pages
...as ministers of His kingdom. founding his Emanuel College at Cambridge, said to Queen Elizabeth, " I have set an acorn, which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." Indeed, God alone did know, for some of that fruit, while the oak was yet young, dropped on this side... | |
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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. 
