 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
 | Thomas Percy - 1876 - 420 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.' "] Take off this chain, Neither Rome nor Spain Can resist my strong invasion. Boldly I preach, &c.... | |
 | Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - 1877 - 676 pages
...ministers of His kingdom. founding his Emanuel College at Cambridge, said to Queen Elizabeth, " I have set an acorn, which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." Indeed, God alone did know, for some of that fruit, while the oak was yet young, dropped on this side... | |
 | Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - 1877 - 642 pages
...ministers of His kingdom. founding his Emanuel College at Cambridge, said to Queen Elizabeth, " I have set an acorn, which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." Indeed, God alone did know, for some of that fruit, while the oak was yet young, dropped on this side... | |
 | William Hendry Stowell - 1878 - 346 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." On which. Fuller remarks : " Sure. I am at this day it hath overshadowed all the University — more... | |
 | Stephen Charnock - 1878 - 296 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 thereof." continued till the death of Charnock in 1680, at the end of six-and-thirty years. Johnson, who styles... | |
 | Our own country - 1878 - 714 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."'* His College occupies the site of a Black Friars' monastery. A part of the founder's buildings remains... | |
 | 1882 - 698 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." America is showing the fruit in a great host scattered from the Atlantic to the Pacific, who love right... | |
 | 1882 - 514 pages
...noble lecture rooms for professors of world-wide fame. "I have set an acorn," said Sir Walter Mildmay, "which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." He said.it to Queen Elizabeth when he had just signed the papers founding Emmanuel College at Cambridge,... | |
 | William Dillingham - 1884 - 84 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 will be the fruit thereof." The college maintained the traditional policy of its foundation ; and in 1636 a strong report was sent... | |
 | James Bass Mullinger - 1884 - 1260 pages
...replied, '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*.' It cannot, certainly, be said that the statutes given to the college in the following year afford much... | |
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