| Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education - Church and education - 1844 - 608 pages
...God had carried us safe to New England, and we had huilded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship,...civil government — one of the next things we longed and looked after was to ADVANCE LEARNING, AND PERPETUATE IT TO POSTERITY DREADING TO LEAVE AN ILLITERATE... | |
| Lydia Howard Sigourney - Atlantic States - 1845 - 344 pages
...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,...advance learning, and perpetuate it to posterity." The Washington Elm is also in the vicinity of the sacred solitudes of Mount Auburn, that spot which... | |
| Lydia Howard Sigourney - American essays - 1845 - 560 pages
...God had carried us safe to N ew England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship,...advance learning, and perpetuate it to posterity." FAREWELL TO NIAGARA. MY spirit grieves to say, Farewell to thee, Oh beautiful and glorious ! Thou dost... | |
| Congregational churches - 1922 - 754 pages
...old college gateway in Massachusetts, " and we had builded our houses, provided necessities for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship...posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to intellectual development as have the American colleges, and among American colleges our schools have... | |
| Massachusetts - 1846 - 302 pages
...necessaries for our liveli-hood, rear'd convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civill government : One of the next things we longed for...dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, whtn our present ministers shall lie in the dust." New-England's First Fruits, published in 1643. t... | |
| Joshua Leavitt - 1850 - 324 pages
...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,...advance learning, and perpetuate it to posterity." 7. The Washington Elm is also in the immediate vicinity of the sacred solitudes of Mount Auburn, —... | |
| Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 708 pages
...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,...government, one of the next things we longed for and looked VOL. i. 44 after was to advance learning, and perpetuate it to posterity ; dreading to leave an illiterate... | |
| Jean Henri Grandpierre - Education - 1854 - 162 pages
...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,...dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present pastors shall lie in the dust."—Neio England First Fruits, p. 12: London, 1643.... | |
| Nathaniel Morton - Massachusetts - 1855 - 558 pages
...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,...settled the civil government, one of the next things we louged for, and looked after, was, to advance learning, and perpetuate it This year the great sachem... | |
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