 | Hugh James Rose - Biography - 1857 - 546 pages
...the queen told him, ' Sir Walter, I hear you have erected a puritan foundation.' ' No madam,' saith he, ' far be it from me to countenance any thing contrary to your established laws ; but 1 have set an acorn, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.'... | |
 | Nathanael Culverwel - Religion - 1857 - 372 pages
...Cambridge.' ' Madam,' said Sir 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 nn oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.' Its growth was rapid, and its produce rich... | |
 | Education - 1857 - 880 pages
...ho said to Queen Elizabeth, who was suspicious of the puritan tendencies of some of the professors, "I have set an acorn, which, when it becomes an oak, God only knows what will be the fruit thereof," The fruit borne by this college was far from being acceptable... | |
 | Missions - 1859 - 970 pages
...presbyter. The knight replied to his royal mistress, " No, far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws ; but I have set...oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." This was in the year 1685, when he had just founded Emanuel College, at Cambridge, which did, in fact,... | |
 | Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education - Church and education - 1860 - 704 pages
...Queen, Elizabeth, told him : ' Sir Walter, I hear you have erected a Puritan, foundation ?' ' No,' saith he, ' far be it from me to countenance any thing contrary...God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.'" We know, in part at least, what has Iccn the fruit thereof. The magistrates and ministers, the political... | |
 | Arthur Tozer Russell - 1860 - 588 pages
...erected a Puritan foundation." " Xo, Madam," saitli he, " far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws; but I have set...oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." " Sure I am at this day," adda Fuller (1634), " it hath overshadowed all the University, more than... | |
 | Charles Henry Cooper, Thompson Cooper - 1861 - 592 pages
...erected a puritan foundation," and that he replied: "No, madam, far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws, but I have set...oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." In 1684 he visited Cambridge, and the townsmen made him a present which cost 23«. 4il. In August of... | |
 | 1861 - 590 pages
...a puritan foundation," and that he 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 ouk, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." In 1581 ho visited Cambridge, and the townsmen... | |
 | Stephen Charnock - Sermons, English - 1864 - 596 pages
...Cambridge.' ' Madam,' said Sir Walter, ' far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your Majesty's established laws ; but I have set an acorn which,...oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.' In 1641, it had 204 students attending, standing next to St John's and Trinity in respect of numbers... | |
 | Stephen Charnock - Puritans - 1864 - 598 pages
...Cambridge.' ' Madam,' said Sir Walter, 'far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your Majesty's established laws ; but I have set an acorn which,...oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.' In 1641, it had 204 students attending, standing next to St John's and Trinity in respect of numbers... | |
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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. 
