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... Public Documents of Massachusetts - Page 6by Massachusetts - 1868Full 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...government, one of the next things we longed for, and looked after, was, to advance learning, and perpetuate it This year the great sachem Woosamequen,... | |
| 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,...government, one of the next, things we longed for, and looked after, was, to advance learning, and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate... | |
| 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...government ; one of the next things we longed for, and looked after, was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate... | |
| 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...government ; one of the next things we longed for, and looked after, was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate... | |
| Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1834 - 574 pages
...is an extract of a letter written in 1642, and published in ' New England's First Fruits.' ' Alter God had carried us safe to New England, and we had...settled the civil government, one of the next things wee longed for and looked after, was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to... | |
| 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...civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity ; dreading i0 leave an illiterate... | |
| Joel Hawes - Hartford (Conn.) - 1835 - 92 pages
...published in 1642, strikingly illustrates the interest felt by our ancestors in literary institutions. " After God had carried us safe to New England, and...government ; one of the next things we longed for and looked after, was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity ; dreading to leave an illiterate... | |
| 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...government; one of the next things we longed for, and looked after, was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate... | |
| 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...civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after, was to advance learning, and perpetuate it to posterity ; dreading to leave an illiterate... | |
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