 | 1906 - 318 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...God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.'" But that the College did become a stronghold of the Puritans is proved by Fuller's comment on the above... | |
 | 1906 - 832 pàgines
...Madam; far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws ; but I have planted an acorn which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." The acorn nevertheless grew into a very Puritan oak, for as time went on the Puritanism of Emmanuel... | |
 | Ira Boseley - 1907 - 332 pàgines
...Puritan Foundation " ; to which he 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 knows what will be the fruit thereof." " In spite, however, of Court jealousies he was appointed for... | |
 | Henry Charles Shelley - 1907 - 414 pàgines
...Mildmay, and hence the fence of his ready reply: "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 fj0<^ ^'one knows what will be the fruit thereof." Puritan foundation, however, Emmanuel was, and that,... | |
 | 1914 - 750 pàgines
...erected a Puritan foundation." "No, 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." Harvard has been glad to think of itself as one of the fruits of Emmanuel. At home it promptly took... | |
 | Douglas Macleane - 1910 - 286 pàgines
...have erected a puritan foundation." "No, madam," sayth 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." (Fuller.) 3 Brief 'Lives, ed. Clark, i. 29, 30. In the Martin Marprelate Epistle it is asked, "Who... | |
 | William Cunningham - 1916 - 198 pàgines
...might have used the words of Sir Walter Mildmay, the founder of Emmanuel, who claimed that "he had set an acorn which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof 1 ." John Harvard was anxious that the young men of the Bay State should have the opportunity of coming... | |
 | William Cunningham - 1916 - 190 pàgines
...might have used the words of Sir Walter Mildmay, the founder of Emmanuel, who claimed that "he had set an acorn which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof1." John Harvard was anxious that the young men of the Bay State should have the opportunity... | |
 | Findlay Muirhead - 1920 - 938 pàgines
...Sir Walter Mildmay. " I have set an acorn," he replied to Queen Elizabeth's charge of Puritanism, " which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." It occupies the site and incorporated the buildings of a 13th cent. Dominican priory, but its present... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Thompson - 1920 - 420 pàgines
...founding his college, Elizabeth taxed him with erecting a Puritan foundation. " No, Madam," he answered, " far be it from me to countenance any thing contrary...oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." Mildmay was a Christ's man, and a benefactor of his College ; and the Christ's man whom he chose as... | |
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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. 
