 | Samuel Adams Drake - Digital images - 1900 - 526 pages
...for and looked after was to advance learning and perpefuafe it to posterity ; dreading to leave un illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust. And as wee were fhinking and consulting how to elfecf fhis jjreat work ; it pleased God to stir up the heart of one... | |
 | Edwin Cornelius Broome - Universities and colleges - 1902 - 172 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...churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the Dust."9 It was a religious motive purely that decided the establishment of 1 Harvard College. Consequently,... | |
 | Edwin Munroe Bacon - Boston (Mass.) - 1903 - 218 pages
...government one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetvate it to posterity dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall die in the dvst New Englands First Fruits. Massachusetts Hall, the oldest of the college buildings,... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - Historic buildings - 1904 - 518 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...wee were thinking and consulting how to effect this fjreat work ; it pleased God to stir up the heart of one Mr. Harvard (a godly gentleman and a lover... | |
 | George Emery Littlefield - Education - 1904 - 376 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...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... | |
 | Paul Henry Hanus - Education - 1904 - 328 pages
...for 1897-1898. (Sixty-second annual report.) 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 ministry shall lie in the dust" l in spite of this noble sentiment almost universally cherished, the... | |
 | Thomas Francis Harrington - 1905 - 554 pages
...America, that "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." Later this view widened as the circumstances of time and the necessities of events pressed forward,... | |
 | North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools - Education, Secondary - 1905 - 646 pages
...educational conceptions prevalent at the time of its founding, made them the corner stone of its curriculum "dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches,...when our present ministers shall lie in the dust", as an ancient document puts it. Nor was modern science at that time sufficiently well established to... | |
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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... 
