 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.  Nature - Page 11edited by - 1909Full view - About this book
 | 1806 - 504 pages
...Puritan college." " No, Madam," said he, " far be it from me to countenance any thing contrary to the established laws. But 1 have set an acorn, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows •vvhat will be the fruit thereof." These words are round this picture : " By Vansomer, iEi;ilis suae... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 570 pages
...madam,' sayth 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 chapel stand north and south, instead... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 572 pages
...madam,' sayth lie, ' 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 chapel stand north and south, instead... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 564 pages
...madam,' sayth 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 chapel stand north and south, instead... | |
 | George Dyer - 1824 - 702 pages
...Madam," replied 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." However, the society rather savoured of Puritanism, and hence the old song, called the Mad Puritan... | |
 | John Platts - Biography - 1826 - 882 pages
...madam,' sayth 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.' " JOHN SMITH, or SMYTHE, a statesman, son of Sir Clement Smith, of Little Badden, in Essex, by a sister... | |
 | Religion - 1832 - 896 pages
..." No, madam ; 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." (Fuller's History of Cambridge, 1635, p. 147.) The acorn vegetated luxuriantly, and produced from the... | |
 | 1835 - 276 pages
...madam," saith 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." Since that period, the revenues of the college have been enlarged by various donations, whereby the... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 368 pages
...madam", saith 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." Sure I am, at this day it hath overshadowed all the University, more than a moiety of the present masters... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - Cambridge - 1840 - 738 pages
...madam," saith 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." Sure I am, at this day it hath over• Sceleloi Canla&rigiensit, Ma. t This is subsequently corrected... | |
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