 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...  The North American Review - Page 500edited by - 1834Full view - About this book
 | William Herbert Perry Faunce - Pastoral theology - 1908 - 312 pages
...minister's unavoidable duty and increasing joy. VII THE RELATION OF THE CHURCH AND THE COLLEGE "After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had...our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reard convenient places for God's worship, and setled the civill government, one of the next things... | |
 | Alfred Thomas Story - British - 1908 - 400 pages
...was quaint and touching : " After God had carried us safe to New England and we had builded our home, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civic government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and... | |
 | Alfred Thomas Story - British - 1908 - 398 pages
...become so illustrious. The colonial record ( M r. Choate continued) was quaint and touching : " After God had carried us safe to New England and we had builded our home, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled... | |
 | Science - 1920 - 808 pages
...founding of a college. "After God had carried us safe to New England," says a contemporary document, "and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1961 - 960 pages
...us safe to New England And wee had buildcd our houses Provided necessaries for our livelihood Reard convenient places for God's worship And 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 leave... | |
 | New Jersey Historical Society - New Jersey - 1866 - 198 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... | |
 | James McKeen Cattell, Will Carson Ryan, Raymond Walters - Education - 1928 - 948 pages
...New and we had bnilded our booses, provided necessities for our livelihood, reared convenient placa for God's worship, and 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... | |
 | Perry Miller - American literature - 1956 - 364 pages
...tract announced New England's adherence to the conservative ideal.] NEW ENGLAND'S FIRST FRUITS 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... | |
 | Leland Ryken - Religion - 1990 - 306 pages
...First Fruits (1643), we read this account of what lay behind the founding of Harvard College: 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.4 Cotton Mather... | |
 | Jonathan Adams, James Luther Adams - Religion - 1991 - 404 pages
...forgotten. The statement in the early pamphlet, "New England's First Fruits," is familiar to all: "After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had...houses, provided necessaries for our liveli-hood, rear'd convenient places for God's worship, and settled the Civil Government: One of the next things... | |
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