 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
 | William Cunningham - 1916 - 190 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 thereof1." John Harvard was anxious that the young men of the Bay State should have the opportunity... | |
 | Findlay Muirhead - 1920 - 938 pages
...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... | |
 | State Street Trust Company (Boston, Mass.) - 1920 - 234 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." Although " In vain the delving antiquary tries To find the tomb where generous Harvard lies," nevertheless... | |
 | Findlay Muirhead - 1920 - 854 pages
...Sir Walter Mildmay. " I have set an acom." 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... | |
 | Albert Mansbridge - 1923 - 356 pages
...answered, ' 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 the fruit will be thereof.' It grew to be a lusty tree ; even in 1634 Fuller comments, ' Sure I am... | |
 | Sydney Castle Roberts - 1927 - 260 pages
...Mildmay, "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." The acorn was Emmanuel College, founded by Sir Walter Mildmay, of Christ's in 1584, on the site previously... | |
 | Paul Monroe - 1911 - 784 pages
...from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws, but (aside he added) I have set an acorn which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." From the acorn thus planted sprang the first college of America, and so, in a degree, many other colleges... | |
 | Christopher Brooke, Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke - 1988 - 422 pages
...saith 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.'10 S Brooke 1985. pp. 55-60: V. Nutton 1979. and his John Caius and the Manuscripts of Galen... | |
 | E. Digby (Edward Digby) Baltzell - 1994 - 330 pages
...said Sir Walter "to countenance anything contrary to your established laws, but I have set an acom, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof."20 The Church was, on the whole, understaffed with poorly trained ministers when Elizabeth... | |
 | Richard Hofstadter - 2011 - 316 pages
...answer, "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." Ibid., p. 312; cf. pp. 310-14. "* On Emmanuel College and Harvard see Samuel Eliot Morison, The Founding... | |
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