 far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws; but I have set an acorn, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.  The Monthly Magazine - Strana 371804Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - Počet stránok 570
...he, * far be it from me to countenance any thing contrary to your established laws ; but I have set an acorn, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.' " He had so much of the puritan about him, however, as to make the chapel stand north and south, instead... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - Počet stránok 564
...he, ' far be it from me to countenance any thing contrary to your established laws; but I have set an acorn, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.' " He had so much of the puritan about him, however, as to make the chapel stand north and south, instead... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - Počet stránok 572
...lie, ' far be it from me to countenance any thing contrary to your established laws ; but I have set an acorn, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.' " He had so much of the puritan about him, however, as to make the chapel stand north and south, instead... | |
 | George Dyer - 1824 - Počet stránok 736
...he, " far be it from me to countenance any thing contrary to your established laws. But I have set an acorn, which, when it becomes an oak, God alone...knows what will be the fruit thereof." However, the society rather savoured of Puritanism, and hence the old song, called the Mad Puritan : Am I mad, most... | |
 | John Platts - 1826 - Počet stránok 830
...he, ' far be it from me to countenance any thing contrary to your established laws 5 but I have set an acorn, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.' " JOHN SMITH, or SMYTHE, a statesman, son of Sir Clement Smith, of Little Badden, in Essex, by a sister... | |
 | 1832 - Počet stránok 896
...madam ; far be it from me to countenance any thing contrary to your established laws : but I have set an acorn which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." (Fuller's History of Cambridge, 1635, p. 147.) The acorn vegetated luxuriantly, and produced from the... | |
 | 1835 - Počet stránok 276
...saith he, "far be it from me to countenance any thing contrary to your established laws; but I have set an acorn, which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." Since that period, the revenues of the college have been enlarged by various donations, whereby the... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1840 - Počet stránok 738
...he : " far be it from me to countenance any thing contrary to your established laws ; but I have set an acorn, which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." Sure I am, at this day it hath over• Sceleloi Canla&rigiensit, Ma. t This is subsequently corrected... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1840 - Počet stránok 368
...he, '!far be it from me to countenance any thing contrary to your established laws, but I have set an acorn, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." Sure I am, at this day it hath overshadowed all the University, more than a moiety of the present masters... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1841 - Počet stránok 662
...reply, " far be it from me to countenance any thing contrary to your established laws; but I have set an acorn, which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." The acorn grew fast, and Fuller, who wrote in 1634, says, " Sure I am, at this day it hath overshadowed... | |
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