After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was... New-England's Memorial - Page 140by Nathaniel Morton - 1669 - 515 pagesFull view - About this book
| Joel Hawes - Hartford (Conn.) - 1835 - 92 pages
...published in 1642, strikingly illustrates the interest felt by our ancestors in literary institutions. " After God had carried us safe to New England, and...looked after, was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity ; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministry... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1835 - 558 pages
...of their design, than their own words. " After God had carried us safe to New-England," said they, " and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries...looked after, was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers... | |
| Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 654 pages
...innumerable, they will bear quoting again ; and seem to me peculiarly apposite to this occasion : ' After God had carried us safe to New England, and...after, was to advance learning, and perpetuate it to posterity ; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when the present ministers... | |
| Joel Hawes - Congregational churches - 1836 - 206 pages
...— See Bancroft's Ktt. vol. i. 330. * " After God had carried us safe to New England,' say they, ' and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries...looked after, was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate min istry to the churches, when our present ministers... | |
| Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 652 pages
...and seem to me peculiarly apposite to this occasion : ' After God had carried us safe to NewEngland, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries...after, was to advance learning, and perpetuate it to posterity ; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when the present ministers... | |
| Alexander Young - 1838 - 728 pages
...ministers for the churches. Thus one of our earliest writers, whose book was published in 1643, says, " After God had carried us safe to New England, and...looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity ; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers... | |
| Edward Everett - Education - 1840 - 460 pages
...innumerable, they will bear quoting, again ; and seem to me peculiarly apposite to this occasion : " After God had carried us safe to New England, and...after, was, to advance learning, and perpetuate it to posterity ; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when the present ministers... | |
| Alexander Young - 1840 - 242 pages
...ministers for the churches. Thus one of our earliest writers, whose book was published in 1643, says, " After God had carried us safe to New England, and...looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall... | |
| Edward Everett - Education - 1840 - 440 pages
...innumerable, they will bear quoting, again ; and seem to me peculiarly apposite to this occasion : " After God had carried us safe to New England, and...things, we longed for and looked after, was, to advance learn>ng, and perpetuate it to posterity ; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches,... | |
| Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education - 1844 - 850 pages
...stands at the head of American Colleges in the order of time, had such an origin'. Its founders say : " After God had carried us safe to New England, and...our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, selected convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things... | |
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