| Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1834 - 574 pages
...is an extract of a letter written in 1642, and published in ' New England's First Fruits.' ' Alter God had carried us safe to New England, and we had...settled the civil government, one of the next things wee longed for and looked after, was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Nathaniel Morton - Massachusetts - 1855 - 558 pages
...continued about four minutes. The earth was unquiet twenty days after by times." — Winth. Jour. f " After God had carried us safe to New England, and...settled the civil government, one of the next things we louged for, and looked after, was, to advance learning, and perpetuate it This year the great sachem... | |
| Augustus Charles Thompson - Prayer - 1863 - 388 pages
...prayer, and mainly with a view to train up men for the ministry. In 1643, our provident fathers said, "After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our house, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled... | |
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