| Nathaniel Morton - Massachusetts - 1669 - 562 pages
...conditions the said Woosamaquen and Mooanam his to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when 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... | |
| Nathaniel Morton - Massachusetts - 1826 - 498 pages
...to advance learning, and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to tl^ churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust; and as we were thinking, ami consulting, how to eflect this great work, it pleased God to stir up the heart... | |
| Joseph Story - Massachusetts - 1828 - 108 pages
...after, was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.' * They were not disappointed in their hopes. By the blessing of Providence this little College, planted... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1835 - 558 pages
...after, was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." * They were not disappointed in their hopes. By the blessing of Providence, this little College,, planted... | |
| Alexander Young - 1838 - 728 pages
...after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity ; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when 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... | |
| Alexander Young - 1840 - 242 pages
...after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when 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... | |
| Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education - 1844 - 850 pages
...was to advance learning, and perpetuate it to posterity ; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." Sixty years after the foundation of Harvard, Cotton Mather says: " Our fathers saw that without a College... | |
| Alexander Young - Massachusetts - 1846 - 590 pages
...was to advance learning, and perpetuate it to posterity ; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when 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... | |
| James Walker - 1855 - 64 pages
...England's First Fruits " assigns for founding it was their dread " to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." And Edward Johnson, in his " Wonder-working Providence," speaks of what was done by its early patrons and... | |
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