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| John Tulloch - Cambridge Platonists - 1872 - 526 pages
...was his 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 (jr) - Ballads, English - 1872 - 428 pages
...Madam,' saith he, ' far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws ; bat 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 Burronghes, Stephen Marshall, Thomas Shepherd, Nathaniel... | |
| Jeremiah Chaplin - 1872 - 340 pages
...courtier-like evasion, " 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." " The fruit," says Stoughton, "proved Puritan to the heart's core." And Fuller,2 who relates the story,... | |
| Frederick Arnold - 1873 - 418 pages
...was his reply: "far 'tis 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, writing in 1634, says: "Sure I am, at this day it hath overshadowed all the Universities, more... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - Cambridgeshire (England) - 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 - English periodicals - 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... | |
| Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - Congregational churches - 1877 - 642 pages
...as 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 - Congregational churches - 1877 - 676 pages
...as 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... | |
| Our own country - 1878 - 714 pages
...Madam,' saith 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... | |
| William Hendry Stowell - Puritans - 1878 - 346 pages
...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." On which. Fuller remarks : " Sure. I am at this day it hath overshadowed all the University — more... | |
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