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
| Lydia Howard Sigourney - Atlantic States - 1845 - 344 pages
...simplicity. How truly was it said by our ancestors, in a work written more than two hundred years since : " After God had carried us safe to New England, and...after, was to advance learning, and perpetuate it to posterity." The Washington Elm is also in the vicinity of the sacred solitudes of Mount Auburn,... | |
| Lydia Howard Sigourney - American essays - 1845 - 560 pages
...ancestors, in a work written mure than two hundred years since : " After God had carried us safe to N ew England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries...after, was to advance learning, and perpetuate it to posterity." FAREWELL TO NIAGARA. MY spirit grieves to say, Farewell to thee, Oh beautiful and glorious... | |
| Alexander Young - Massachusetts - 1846 - 590 pages
...Which Avas no sooner done, but the 1637. 1 " After God had carried us safe to New-England, and \ve had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our...after, was to advance learning, and perpetuate it to posterity ; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers... | |
| Congregational churches - 1922 - 754 pages
...inscription on an old college gateway in Massachusetts, " and we had builded our houses, provided necessities for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's...looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it. to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to intellectual development as have the American... | |
| Massachusetts - 1846 - 302 pages
...necessaries for our liveli-hood, rear'd convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civill government : One of the next things we longed for...looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity : dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, whtn our present ministers... | |
| John Adams Albro - 1847 - 336 pages
...and educated here. As soon, therefore, says one of the early settlers, as " God had carried us safely to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our own livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of... | |
| Joshua Leavitt - 1850 - 324 pages
...the remark which was made by our ancestors in a work written more than two hundred years since : 6. " After God had carried us safe to New England, and...after, was to advance learning, and perpetuate it to posterity." 7. The Washington Elm is also in the immediate vicinity of the sacred solitudes of Mount... | |
| Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 708 pages
...he was felt to be by his contemporaries. In a letter written by some of them, in 1642, they say, " After God had carried us safe to New England, and...necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for * See note B, at the end. God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we... | |
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