 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
 | 1868 - 716 pages
...madam, far be it from ВД 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.' " Emmanuel College soon became an oak, and one of its fruits was a school at Newtown. Massachusetts... | |
 | William Everett - 1865 - 418 pages
...reply ; " 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." " And," says Fuller, who tells the story, writing in 1634, " Sure I am at this day it hath overshadowed... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1867 - 580 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."2 The fruit proved Puritan to the heart's core ; and the fact is commemorated in a satire... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1867 - 564 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."2 The fruit proved Puritan to the heart's core ; and the fact is commemorated in a satire... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1868 - 650 pages
...he, ' far be it from me to countenance any tiling 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.'" John GifTord, Ezekiel Culverwell, Jeremiah Burroughs, Stephen Marshall, Thomas Shephard, Nathaniel... | |
 | 1882 - 462 pages
...reply. " 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." It was while this oak was still a sapling, that Whichcote, took his degree at Emmanuel in 1629, about... | |
 | John Tulloch - 1872 - 526 pages
...reply, " 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." l Whichcote took his degree of BA in 1629, and of MA in 1633, and in the latter year became fellow... | |
 | John Glyde - 1872 - 526 pages
...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.' " John Gifford, Ezekiel Culverwell, Jeremiah Burroughes, Stephen Marshall, Thomas Shepherd, Nathaniel... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1875 - 642 pages
...he replied to Queen Elizabeth, who told him she heard he had " erected a Puritan foundation " — " which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." Emmanuel did in effect remain strongly Puritan until at least the middle of the next century, but the... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1886 - 536 pages
...significantly ; " 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."' (P. 31.) But if man did not know, he might give a shrewd guess as to what the fruits would be. Everything... | |
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