 | Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - 1900 - 526 pàgines
...having 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...oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." how will that stand with the Queen's Honour, and with the Requests of the French and Spanish Kings,... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1901 - 412 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1902 - 640 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Mandell Creighton - 1903 - 416 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh - 1904 - 298 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Delavan Levant Leonard - 1904 - 484 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1904 - 654 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Charles William Stubbs - 1905 - 432 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1905 - 1356 pàgines
...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... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1905 - 1340 pàgines
...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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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. 
