| Nathaniel Morton - Massachusetts - 1669 - 562 pages
...continued about four minutes. The earth was unquiet twenty days after by times." — Winth. Jour. f " After God had carried us safe to New England. and...things we longed for, and looked after, was, to advance learning, and perpetuate it This year the great sachem Woosamequen, sometimes called Massasoiet, and... | |
| Abiel Holmes - Cambridge (Mass.) - 1801 - 142 pages
...houfes, provided neceffaries for our liveli-hood, rear'd convenient places for God's worfhip, and fettled the civil! government : One of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to pofterity : dreading to leave an illiterate miniftry to the churches,... | |
| Samuel Hall,The Massachusetts Historical Society - 1801 - 300 pages
...neceflaries for our liveli-hood, rear'd convenient places for God's worfhip, and fettled the civill government : One of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to pofterity : dreading to leave an illiterate miniftry to the churches*... | |
| Nathaniel Morton - Massachusetts - 1826 - 498 pages
...God had carried us safe to New -England, a-id we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for oar livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship,...things we longed for, and looked after, was, to advance learning, and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to tl^ churches,... | |
| Joseph Story - Massachusetts - 1828 - 108 pages
...of their design, than their own words. ' After God had carried us safe to New-England,' say they, ' and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries...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,... | |
| Joel Hawes - Church history - 1830 - 264 pages
...later period. — Mather, B. 1 CA. Hi. * " After God had carried us safe to New England, say they, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries...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,... | |
| Benjamin Peirce - 1833 - 518 pages
...necessaries for our livelihood, rear'd convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civill 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 ministery to the churches,... | |
| Theology - 1834 - 424 pages
...blessing of education. " After God had carried us safe to New England," say they in the " First Fruits," " and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries...things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity ; dreading i0 leave an illiterate ministry to the churches,... | |
| Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1834 - 574 pages
...is an extract of a letter written in 1642, and published in ' New England's First Fruits.' ' Alter God had carried us safe to New England, and we had...settled the civil government, one of the next things wee longed for and looked after, was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to... | |
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