 | 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
...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." That acorn was planted in faith — in the full belief that it would become an oak, and, evidently,... | |
 | 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
...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,...of the Puritan about him, however, as to make the College Chapel stand north and south, instead of east and west. After retaining the office of Chancellor... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Alexander Wilson M'Clure - 1848 - 638 pàgines
...queen charged him with having " erected a puritan foundation." In reply, he told her, that he had " set an acorn, which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit of it." And truly, it pleased God, that it should yield plenteous crops of puritan " hearts of oak,"... | |
 | Joseph Alden - 1849 - 188 pàgines
...puritan foundation." " No, madam," said he, " far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your laws : but I have set an acorn, which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit of it." The college became the nursery of puritanism. Many of the most useful and distinguished puritan... | |
 | 1850 - 528 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." On which Fuller remarks : " Sure I am at this day it hath overshadowed all the University — more... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - 1853 - 528 pàgines
...the 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...chapel stand north and south, instead of east and west. , MILE, or MILLE, (Francesco,) called Francisque, a painter, was born at Antwerp in 1644, and at an... | |
 | William Henry Bartlett - 1853 - 388 pàgines
...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.' " Whatever might have been the property of the seedling, the fruit at least fully justified her Majesty's... | |
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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. 
