 | Estelle Minerva Hatch Merrill - Cambridge (Mass.) - 1896 - 310 pages
...civill government 87 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 New Englands First Fruits Passing into the college yard, two very ancient brick buildings greet our... | |
 | Estelle Minerva Hatch Merrill - Cambridge (Mass.) - 1896 - 308 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 ministry To the churches when our present ministersShall lie in the dust New Englands First Fruits Passing into the college yard, two very ancient... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - Cambridge (Mass.) - 1896 - 554 pages
...AFTER 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 Here the colonists founded their college, and across its shield they wrote Veritas. Harvard has been... | |
 | Theology - 1918 - 590 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...ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall be in the dust." This, their original association with religion, seems, by some of them, in recent... | |
 | John Castell Hopkins - Canada - 1898 - 544 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." No sooner, therefore, did the Pilgrim Fathers plant their principles upon this continent than they... | |
 | Lyman P. Powell - 1898 - 656 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...when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." Accordingly, on the 28th day of October, 1636, Sir Harry Vane—Milton's " Vane, young in years, but... | |
 | Harvard University - 1898 - 700 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 Colledgc at Cambridge in... | |
 | Lyman Pierson Powell - New England - 1899 - 664 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...when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." Accordingly, on the 28th day of October, 1636, Sir Harry Vane — Milton's " Vane, young in years,... | |
 | International Congregational Council - 1900 - 676 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...when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." The Congregational body simplified the ritual and ceremonial side of worship, and magnified the unwritten... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 406 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...when our present ministers shall lie in the dust" * In this spirit it was ordered by the General Court, as early as 1642, "That in every town the chosen... | |
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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... 
