 | Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - Congregational churches - 1877 - 642 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... | |
 | English periodicals - 1877 - 932 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... | |
 | Our own country - 1878 - 714 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...God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof."'* His College occupies the site of a Black Friars' monastery. A part of the founder's buildings remains... | |
 | William Hendry Stowell - Puritans - 1878 - 346 pages
...erected a Puritan foundation." "Ho, 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... | |
 | Stephen Charnock - 1878 - 296 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." continued till the death of Charnock in 1680, at the end of six-and-thirty years. Johnson, who styles... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - London (England) - 1878 - 522 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... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - London (England) - 1878 - 528 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.'1 Sir Walter was one of the commissioners to Mary Queen of Scots... | |
 | Education - 1882 - 698 pages
...erected a Puritan foundation," his reply was, " 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." America is showing the fruit in a great host scattered from the Atlantic to the Pacific, who love right... | |
 | 1882 - 514 pages
...noble lecture rooms for professors of world-wide fame. "I have set an acorn," said Sir Walter Mildmay, "which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." He said.it to Queen Elizabeth when he had just signed the papers founding Emmanuel College at Cambridge,... | |
 | James Bass Mullinger - Education - 1884 - 1260 pages
...Sir Walter,' said Elizabeth, 'you have been erecting a Puritan foundation.' 'No, Madam,' he replied, 'far be it from me to countenance any thing contrary...God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof*.' It cannot, certainly, be said that the statutes given to the college in the following year afford much... | |
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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. 
