| Nathaniel Morton - Massachusetts - 1826 - 498 pages
...to advance learning, and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to tl^ churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust; and as we were thinking, ami consulting, how to eflect this great work, it pleased God to stir up the heart of one Mr. Harvard,... | |
| 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...when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.' * They were not disappointed in their hopes. By the blessing of Providence this little College, planted... | |
| Joseph Story - Massachusetts - 1828 - 98 pages
...one of the next things we longed for, and looked after, was to advance learning and perpetuate lit to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry...when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.' * They were not disappointed in their hopes. By the blessing of Providence this little College, planted... | |
| 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...to the churches, when our present ministers shall be in the dust." — 1 Hist. Collect, 240. c 8135 5 OF THE PILGRIMS. 121 janized, and became matter... | |
| Benjamin Peirce - 1833 - 508 pages
...was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity ; dreading to leave an illiterate ministery to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust. And as wee were thinking and consulting how to effect this great work ; it pleased God to stir up the heart... | |
| Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1834 - 574 pages
...reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things wee longed for and looked after, was to advance learning...ministry to the churches, when our present ministers should lie in the dust And as wee were thinking and consulting how to effect this great work, it pleased... | |
| 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...when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." * They were not disappointed in their hopes. By the blessing of Providence, this little College,, planted... | |
| Joel Hawes - Hartford (Conn.) - 1835 - 92 pages
...interest felt by our ancestors in literary institutions. " After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries...illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministry shall be in the dust." magistrates and wealthier men were profuse in their liberality,* —... | |
| Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 652 pages
...innumerable, they will bear quoting again ; and seem to me peculiarly apposite to this occasion : ' After God had carried us safe to NewEngland, and we...leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when the present ministers shall be in the dust.' Now, sir, it is proposed to assist our brethren in Ohio,... | |
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