 | Nathaniel Morton - Massachusetts - 1669 - 562 pages
...the said government shall send or appoint. All which conditions the said Woosamaquen and Mooanam his to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry...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
...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.' * They were not disappointed in their hopes. By the blessing of Providence this little College, planted... | |
 | Joseph Story - Massachusetts - 1828 - 98 pages
...one of the next things we longed for, and looked after, was to advance learning and perpetuate lit to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry...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... | |
 | Joel Hawes - Church history - 1830 - 264 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...to the churches, when our present ministers shall be in the dust." — 1 Hist. Collect, 240. c 8135 5 OF THE PILGRIMS. 121 janized, and became matter... | |
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1834 - 574 pages
...civil government, one of the next things wee 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 should lie in the dust And as wee were thinking and consulting how to effect this great work, it pleased... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1835 - 558 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." * They were not disappointed in their hopes. By the blessing of Providence, this little College,, planted... | |
 | Joel Hawes - Hartford (Conn.) - 1835 - 92 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 ministry shall be in the dust." magistrates and wealthier men were profuse in their liberality,* —... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 652 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 should lie in the dust. And as we were thinking and consulting how to effect this great work, it pleased... | |
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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... 
