 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
 | Alfred Thomas Story - British - 1908 - 400 pages
...was quaint and touching : " After God had carried us safe to New England and we had builded our home, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civic government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and... | |
 | Western Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church - 1910 - 350 pages
...build upon their foundation. Among the records of the early days of our country we find this : ' ' After God had carried us safe to New England and we...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... | |
 | Science - 1920 - 808 pages
...founding of a college. "After God had carried us safe to New England," says a contemporary document, "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 to leave an illiterate... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1961 - 960 pages
...us safe to New England And wee had buildcd our houses Provided necessaries for our livelihood Reard convenient places for God's worship And 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 leave an illiterate... | |
 | New Jersey Historical Society - New Jersey - 1866 - 198 pages
...touchingly exhibit the spirit of its founders, than their own account of it:—" After God had brought us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses,...government, one of the next things we longed for, and looked after, was to advance learning, and perpetuate it to posterity." If these sentiments, and... | |
 | James McKeen Cattell, Will Carson Ryan, Raymond Walters - Education - 1928 - 948 pages
...New and we had bnilded our booses, provided necessities for our livelihood, reared convenient placa for God's worship, and 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 leave an illiterate... | |
 | Perry Miller - American literature - 1956 - 364 pages
...the tract announced New England's adherence to the conservative ideal.] NEW ENGLAND'S FIRST FRUITS 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... | |
 | Leland Ryken - Religion - 1990 - 306 pages
...England's First Fruits (1643), we read this account of what lay behind the founding of Harvard College: 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.4 Cotton Mather called that... | |
 | Jonathan Adams, James Luther Adams - Religion - 1991 - 404 pages
...sometimes forgotten. The statement in the early pamphlet, "New England's First Fruits," is familiar to all: "After God had carried us safe to New England, and...houses, provided necessaries for our liveli-hood, rear'd convenient places for God's worship, and settled the Civil Government: One of the next things... | |
 | William Stacy Johnson, John H. Leith - Religion - 2002 - 436 pages
...and his promises, with holy and spiritual pleasure in doing good. D. ROBERT MATHER: HARVARD COLLEGE 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... | |
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