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
| Nathaniel Morton - Massachusetts - 1669 - 562 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 we had...settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for, and looked after, was, to advance learning, and perpetuate it This year the great sachem... | |
| Nathaniel Morton - Massachusetts - 1826 - 498 pages
...God had carried us safe to New -England, a-id we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for oar livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship,...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... | |
| Joseph Story - Massachusetts - 1828 - 108 pages
...of their design, than their own words. ' After God had carried us safe to New-England,' say they, ' 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... | |
| Joel Hawes - Church history - 1830 - 264 pages
...later period. — Mather, B. 1 CA. Hi. * " After God had carried us safe to New England, say they, 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... | |
| Theology - 1831 - 426 pages
...ministers for the churches of Christ. In 1642 one of the first patrons of the College thus writes ; ' After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the... | |
| Theology - 1834 - 424 pages
...blessing of education. " After God had carried us safe to New England," say they in the " First Fruits," " 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 i0... | |
| Joel Hawes - Hartford (Conn.) - 1835 - 92 pages
...in 1642, strikingly illustrates the interest felt by our ancestors in literary institutions. " 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... | |
| 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...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... | |
| 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 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... | |
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