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" Each Member brought a Number of Books and presented them to the Body ; and laying them on the Table, said these Words, or to this Effect ; "I give these Books for the founding a College in this Colony. "
Connecticut Historical Collections: Containing a General Collection of ... - Page 144
by John Warner Barber - 1836 - 560 pages
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The History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the ...

Jacob Harris Patton - United States - 1868 - 890 pages
...at Branford, where each one laid upon the table his gift of books, accompanied by the declaration, " I give these books for the founding a college in this colony." Forty volumes were thus contributed. How little did these good men, as they made their humble offerings,...
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The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated, Volumes 50-51

Phrenology - 1870 - 936 pages
...to which each member brought a number of books and presented them with the unostentatious formula, " I give these books for the founding a college in this colony." About forty volumes were thus contributed, to which additions both of money and books were made. The...
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American Enterprise: Burley's United States Centennial Gazetteer and Guide ...

Sylvester W. Burley - Centennial Exhibition - 1876 - 900 pages
...brought a number of books and presented them to the body, and laying them on the table said these words: 'I give these books for the founding a college in this colony.' The number of volumes thus collected consisted of forty folios." Such was the humble beginning of what...
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Patton's Concise History of the American People: From the Discoveries of the ...

Jacob Harris Patton - United States - 1876 - 1086 pages
...at Branford, where each one laid upon the table his gift of books, accompanied by the declaration, " I give these books for the founding a college in this colony." Forty volumes were thus contributed. How little did these good men, as they made their humble offerings,...
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A Primer of American Literature

Charles Francis Richardson - American literature - 1880 - 132 pages
...the same year, they deposited forty books on a table, each declaring as he laid down his parcel, " I give these books for the founding a college in this colony." In its early years the new institution led a wandering and not altogether peaceful life at Killingworth,...
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Circular of Information of the Bureau of Education, for ..., Volume 14

Education - 1893 - 1198 pages
...brought a few folios from his own library, and, laying them on Mr. Russell's table, said solemnly, "I give these books for the founding a college in this colony."- Thus humbly was Tale College begun, to broaden and widen, till it comes to-day nearer to being a :NTational...
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Exercises at the Opening of the James Blackstone Memorial Library, Branford ...

James Blackstone Memorial Library (Branford, Conn.) - Branford (Conn.) - 1897 - 138 pages
...and presented them to the body, and laying them on the table, said these words, or to this effect : ' I give these books for the founding a college in this Colony.' Then the trustees as a body took possession of them and appointed the Rev. Mr. Rüssel, of Branford,...
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The Life of Henry Bradley Plant

George Hutchinson Smyth - Businessmen - 1898 - 380 pages
...and presented them to the body, and laying them on the table said these words, or to this effect, " I give these books for the founding a college in this Colony." Then the trustees, as a body, took possession of them, and appointed the Rev. Mr. Russel, of Branford,...
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The History and Government of the United States, Volume 1

Jacob Harris Patton, John Lord - United States - 1903 - 478 pages
...at Branford, where each one laid upon the table his gift of books, accompanied by the declaration, " I give these books for the founding a college in this colony." Forty volumes were thus contributed. How little did these good men, as they made their humble offerings,...
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The Book of the Yale Pageant, 21 October 1916: In Commemoration of the Two ...

George Henry Nettleton - Pageants - 1916 - 298 pages
...and presented them to the Body; and laying them on the Table, said these Words, or to this Effect; "I give these Books for the founding a College in this Colony." Clap, Annals, p. 3. These few books and fewer words, which automatically set the College in motion,...
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