 | 1835 - 276 pàgines
...the Queen said, " 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." Since that period, the revenues of the college have been enlarged by various donations, whereby the... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 368 pàgines
...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." Sure I am, at this day it hath overshadowed all the University, more than a moiety of the present masters... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 738 pàgines
...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." Sure I am, at this day it hath over• Sceleloi Canla&rigiensit, Ma. t This is subsequently corrected... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 826 pàgines
...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." Sure I am, at this day it hath over• Sceletot Cantabrigiensis, MB. t This Is subsequently corrected... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1841 - 662 pàgines
...him, " So, Sir Walter, I hear you have erected a puritan foundation." " No, Madam," was his reply, " far be it from me to countenance any thing contrary...oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." The acorn grew fast, and Fuller, who wrote in 1634, says, " Sure I am, at this day it hath overshadowed... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 pàgines
...erected a Puritan foundation." "No, Madam," was the answer, " 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." In the corner next to this monument is that to the memory of... | |
 | Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education - 1844 - 850 pàgines
...said to 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...to your established laws; but I have set an acorn, 1856.] THIRTEENTH REPORT. which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof."... | |
 | Thomas Wright, Harry Longueville Jones - 1847 - 450 pàgines
...him, " So, Sir Walter, I hear you have erected a puritan foundation." " No, Madam," was his reply, " far be it from me to countenance any thing contrary...oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." The acorn grew fast, and Fuller, who wrote in 1634, says, " Sure I am, at this day it hath overshadowed... | |
 | 1847 - 620 pàgines
...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 to your established laws ; but 1 have set an acorn, which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof."... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - 1848 - 528 pàgines
...erected a puritan foundation.' ' No madam,' saith he, ' far be it from me to countenance any tiling contrary to your established laws ; but I have set...when it becomes an oak. God alone knows what will he the fruit thereof.1 " He had so much of the puritan about him, however, as to make the chapel stand... | |
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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. 
