 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
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 652 pages
...and seem to me peculiarly apposite to this occasion : ' After God had carried us safe to NewEngland, 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... | |
 | Joel Hawes - Congregational churches - 1836 - 206 pages
...— See Bancroft's Ktt. vol. i. 330. * " 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... | |
 | Alexander Young - 1838 - 728 pages
...for the churches. Thus one of our earliest writers, whose book was published in 1643, says, " 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... | |
 | Alexander Young - 1840 - 242 pages
...for the churches. Thus one of our earliest writers, whose book was published in 1643, says, " 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... | |
 | Edward Everett - Education - 1840 - 460 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... | |
 | Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education - 1844 - 850 pages
...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 we had...our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, selected convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - Atlantic States - 1845 - 344 pages
...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 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." The Washington... | |
 | 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...settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after, was to advance learning, and perpetuate it to posterity." FAREWELL... | |
 | 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...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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