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. The Monthly Magazine - Page 371804Full view - About this book
| Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh - 1904 - 358 pages
...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 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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 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 pages
...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 alone knows what will ba the fruit thereof." From the acorn thus planted sprang the first college of America, and so, in... | |
| 1906 - 832 pages
...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... | |
| 1906 - 318 pages
...he, ' far be it from me to countenance any thing 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.'" But that the College did become a stronghold of the Puritans is proved by Fuller's comment on the above... | |
| Douglas Macleane - 1910 - 286 pages
...sayth he, " 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." (Fuller.) 3 Brief 'Lives, ed. Clark, i. 29, 30. In the Martin Marprelate Epistle it is asked, "Who... | |
| 1914 - 750 pages
...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 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... | |
| William Cunningham - 1916 - 198 pages
...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... | |
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