 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
 | E. S. Leedham-Green - 1996 - 288 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.' See below, p. 92. extended to the scrutiny and revision of college statutes. They seem to have encountered... | |
 | Ernest Bacon - 1996 - 196 pages
..."far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to Your Majesty's established laws, but I have set an acorn which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit of it." Cambridge The fruit of Emmanuel College was Puritan teaching and Puritan ministers. Scores... | |
 | H. Rondel Rumburg - 2003 - 254 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. '"(45) Sir Walter's acorn did become a mighty oak. George Leon Walker wrote, "the vigour of Emmanuel's... | |
 | H. Rondel Rumburg - 2003 - 253 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.'"(45) Sir Walter's acorn did become a mighty oak. George Leon Walker wrote, "the vigour of... | |
 | Martin Garrett - 2004 - 284 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." Between the foundation in January 1584 and the middle of the seventeenth century, Emmanuel did indeed... | |
 | Sargent Bush - 2005 - 248 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."6 In the early statutes of the college and in his comments on those statutes, Mildmay returned... | |
 | Jack Cunningham - 2007 - 262 pages
...madam, far be it for 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.'10 At Sidney Sussex, Bramhall came under the tutelage of a Mr Howlett" who Jeremy Taylor described... | |
 | 1919 - 150 pages
...have a vision of a great Radcliffe," said a professor who at the time was a separatist. We " have set an acorn, which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." In the centuries to come, Radcliffe may be independent of Harvard, though more likely to be an acknowledged... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1909 - 1088 pages
...replied, " far be it from me to countenance anything 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." Through John Harvard, of Emmanuel, Cambridge became the mother of our colleges. Did not Emmanuel beget... | |
 | 1829 - 334 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." He had so much of the Puritan about him, however, as to make the College Chapel stand north and south,... | |
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