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... New-England's Memorial - Page 140by Nathaniel Morton - 1669 - 515 lehteFull view - About this book
| Jean Henri Grandpierre - 1854 - 162 lehte
...part of the country, have left the following account of their arrival in tfyeir new home. " After-God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded...looked after was, to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present pastors shall... | |
| Augustus Charles Thompson - 1863 - 388 lehte
...prayer, and mainly with a view to train up men for the ministry. In 1643, our provident fathers said, "After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our house, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1864 - 906 lehte
...early days, \vu find the following clear and beautiful statement of their thoughts and feelings : " After God had carried us safe to New England, and...looked after was, to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches after our present ministry shall... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1864 - 874 lehte
...early days, we find the following clear and beautiful statement of their thoughts and feelings : " After God had carried us safe to New England, and...looked after was, to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches after our present ministry shall... | |
| Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1864 - 716 lehte
...historian of New England represents the feeling of the early settlers: " After God had carried us safely to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, raised convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things... | |
| 1865 - 72 lehte
...provided neceflaries for our liveli-hood, rear'd convenient places for Gods worfhip, and fetled the Civill Government : One of the next things we longed for,...looked after was to advance Learning, and perpetuate it to Pofterity ; dreading to leave an illiterate Miniftery to the Churches, when our prefent Minifters... | |
| George Punchard - 1880 - 720 lehte
...commonwealths what their Christian ambition designed. Thus we are told by one of their own number: "After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had buildcd our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship,... | |
| Newark (N.J.) - 1866 - 194 lehte
...touchingly exhibit the spirit of its founders, than their own account of it : — " After God had brought us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses,...after, was to advance learning, and perpetuate it to posterity." If these sentiments, and these doings, display not high approaches toward moral perfection,... | |
| Samuel Ware Fisher - 1867 - 32 lehte
...ever New England thought upon." And the testimony of the early colonists was to the same effect. " After God had carried us safe to New England, and...looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when the present ministry shall... | |
| Massachusetts. Board of Education - 1868 - 568 lehte
...his library, for the endowment of a College. One of the devout men of that . period says, in 1642 : "After God had carried us safe to New England, and...civil government, one of the next things we longed for was to advance learning, and perpetuate it to posterity ; " * and, in 1 &47, in the very infancy of... | |
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