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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. "
The Monthly Magazine - Page 37
1804
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Emmanuel College

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...
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The History of Carleton College: Its Origin and Growth, Environment and Builders

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...
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The English Illustrated Magazine, Volume 31

1904 - 656 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...
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The Story of Cambridge

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,...
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Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of ..., Volume 1

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...
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Messenger of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Volume 45

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...
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The Connoisseur, Volume 16

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...
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Lancelot Andrewes and the Reaction

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...
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Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Issue 17

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...
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English Influence on the United States

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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