...Madam,' he 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...

...Madam,' he 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...

...madam," he 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...

...metaphor: "No, 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...

...replied, 'No, 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...

...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." He had so much of the Puritan about him, however, as to make the College Chapel stand north and south,...

...daughter. "I 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...

...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 thereof1." John Harvard was anxious that the young men of the Bay State should have the opportunity...

...(replied he,) fai be it from me to countenance any thing contrary to your eftablimed laws. But I have fet an acorn, which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." However, the fociety rsthcr favoured of Puritanil'm, and hence the old fong, called the Mad Puritan...