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 | George Punchard - Church history - 1880 - 720 pages
...told by one of their own number: "After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had buildcd our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood,...settled the civil government — one of the next things we longed for and looked after was, to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity ; dreading to... | |
 | Newark (N.J.) - Newark (N.J.) - 1866 - 194 pages
...touchingly exhibit the spirit of its founders, than their own account of it : — " After God had brought us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses,...settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for, and looked after, was to advance learning, and perpetuate it to posterity." If these... | |
 | Samuel Ware Fisher - History - 1867 - 32 pages
...New England thought upon." And the testimony of the early colonists was to the same effect. " After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had...settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to... | |
 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - Education - 1868 - 568 pages
...library, for the endowment of a College. One of the devout men of that . period says, in 1642 : "After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had...settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for was to advance learning, and perpetuate it to posterity ; " * and, in 1 &47, in the very... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1868 - 1260 pages
...library, for the endowment of a College. One of the devout men of that period says, in 1G42 : "After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had...settled the ci"vil government, one of the next things we longed for was to advance lea.rnin£, and perpetuate it to posterity ;"* and, in 1647, in the very... | |
 | Education - 1891 - 1360 pages
...the Freshman class having reached the limit given above. CHAPTER X. THE DENOMINATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. had. carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for onr livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of... | |
 | None - History - 1871 - 150 pages
...lines, which strikingly illustrates the anxiety of our ancestors in the matter of education : " After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our homes, provided the means of livelihood for our families, reared a convenient place.for G-ed's worship,... | |
 | Amherst College - 1871 - 170 pages
...lines, which strikingly illustrates the anxiety of our ancestors in the matter of education : "After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our homes, provided the means of livelihood for our families, reared a convenient place for God's worship,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1872 - 528 pages
...together they have flourished always. Said one of her early teachers, in most affecting words, — "After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had...settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for aud looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - 1872 - 340 pages
...institution of learning. Says the author of New England's First Fruits, published in 1643 : " After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had...settled the civil government ; one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity ; dreading to... | |
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