 | james r - 1873 - 520 pages
...civill 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...when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." It would appear from this tract that though the General Court had, in 1636, purposed to found the College,... | |
 | Alexander McKenzie - Cambridge (Mass.) - 1873 - 334 pages
...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...when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." The College seal of 1643 bore the motto "Veritas," which was inscribed on three open books. This was... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1873 - 512 pages
...civill 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...when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." It would appear from this tract that though the General Court had, in 1636, purposed to found the College,... | |
 | Harvard University - Education - 1910 - 944 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." New England's first Fruits, in respect of the progress of learning, in the Oolledge at Cambridge in... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1874 - 528 pages
...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...churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust."1 In this spirit it was ordered by the General Court, as early as 1642, "That in every town the... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - Historic buildings - 1874 - 544 pages
...for and looked after was to u.ivam-e learning and perpetuate it to posterity ; dreading to leave ;m illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust. Arid as wee were thinking and consulting how to effect this great work ; it pleased God to stir np... | |
 | George Lowell Austin - Massachusetts - 1875 - 746 pages
...civill 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...our present ministers shall lie in the dust. And as we were thinking and consulting how to effect this great work, it pleased God to stir up the heart... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - Middlesex County (Mass.) - 1876 - 476 pages
...civill 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...dust. And as wee were thinking and consulting how to effoct this grait work ; it pleased God to stir np the heart of one Mr. Harvard (a godly gentleman... | |
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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... 
