 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
 | Stephen Charnock - 1878 - 296 pages
...Walter, " 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... | |
 | Education - 1882 - 698 pages
...was, " 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." 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,... | |
 | James Bass Mullinger - Education - 1884 - 1260 pages
...Madam,' he 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... | |
 | William Dillingham - 1884 - 84 pages
...madam," he 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... | |
 | Emmanuel College (University of Cambridge) - 1884 - 118 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 frtiit thereof." Thus far the conversation has been often repeated, but the sequel is, we believe,... | |
 | George Lewis - Authors, English - 1886 - 474 pages
...replied, " 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." Elsewhere he says, " We have founded the College, with the design that it should be, by the grace of... | |
 | John Willis Clark - Cambridge (England) - 1890 - 352 pages
...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." The charter granted to him by the Queen is dated nth of January, 1584. Therein his foundation is described... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - Charities - 1893 - 212 pages
...was, " 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." America is showing the fruit in a great host scattered from the Atlantic to the Pacific, who love right... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1894 - 476 pages
...: ' No, madam ; fur 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 statutes for the government of Emmanuel College bear date 1 Oct. 1585. They are at tested oy his... | |
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