 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
 | Congregational churches - 1922 - 754 pages
...inscription on an old college gateway in Massachusetts, " and we had builded our houses, provided necessities for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Joshua Leavitt - 1850 - 324 pages
...remark which was made by our ancestors in a work written more than two hundred years since : 6. " 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." 7. The Washington... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 708 pages
...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 we had...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... | |
 | Jean Henri Grandpierre - Education - 1854 - 162 pages
...part of the country, have left the following account of their arrival in tfyeir new home. " After-God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded...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... | |
 | Augustus Charles Thompson - Prayer - 1863 - 388 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1864 - 874 pages
...days, we find the following clear and beautiful statement of their thoughts and feelings : " 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... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1864 - 906 pages
...days, \vu find the following clear and beautiful statement of their thoughts and feelings : " 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... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - Presbyterianism - 1864 - 716 pages
...historian of New England represents the feeling of the early settlers: " After God had carried us safely to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, raised convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things... | |
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