| Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 522 pages
...glory, that men shall say of succeeding plantations, ' The Lord make it likely that of New England.' For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. Soe that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - History - 1867 - 506 pages
...glory, that men shall say of succeeding plantations, ' The Lord make it likely that of New England.' For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. Soe that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - Puritans - 1869 - 514 pages
...glory, that men shall say of succeeding plantations, ' The Lord make it likely that of New England.' For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. Soe that 1f we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - 1869 - 508 pages
...glory, that men shall say of succeeding plantations, ' The Lord make it likely that of New England.9 For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. Soe that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to... | |
| Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives - 1966 - 1206 pages
...existence been under the direction of a man who warned his group of new settlers that "We must always consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill — the eyes of all peop^ are upon us.'; Our late beloved President went on to caution that "Today the eyes of all people... | |
| United States. President (1963-1969 : Johnson) - Presidents - 1965 - 1296 pages
...Kennedy told us that John Winthrop, setting out for America, said to his shipmates, "We must always consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill — the eyes of all people are upon us." Well, America tonight is a city upon a hill, and those who watch us look not to our tall buildings... | |
| Everett H. Emerson - American literature - 1977 - 328 pages
...163o as it carried the Puritan settlers to Massachusetts Bay. When Winthrop prophesied that they would be "as a City upon a Hill, the eyes of all people" upon them as they carried out God's work, he sounded a keynote which remained a theme in American life... | |
| |