 | Augusta Blanche Berard - United States - 1859 - 230 pages
...farmers, who, in 1700, assembled at Branford, and each one, laying a few volumes on thei table, said : " I give these books for the founding of a College in this colony."* New Haven was the place afterwards chosen for its location, and it was called Tale, in honor of Elihu... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Mexico - 1859 - 446 pages
...assembled at Branford,* and each, producing a few books, laid them on the table, with these words : " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." Such was the beginning of Yale College, now one of the most honored institutions of learning in the... | |
 | Edward Edwards - Libraries - 1859 - 1206 pages
...organized — each of them brought a number of books , and presenting them to the Society, said, / give these books for the founding of a College in this Colony. ' To this College, as to Harvard, Bishop Berkeley was an early and eminent benefactor. In the dawn... | |
 | William Jones Rhees - Libraries - 1859 - 724 pages
...same year, each of them brought a number of books, and, presenting them to the society, said : ' / give these books for the founding of a college in this colony.' "Bishop Berkeley, about 1733, sent to the library from Europe 'the finest collection of books that... | |
 | Edward Edwards - 1859 - 1196 pages
...organized — each of them brought a number of books , and presenting them to the Society, said, / give these books for the founding of a College in this Colony. ' To this College, as to Harvard, Bishop Berkeley was an early and eminent benefactor. In the dawn... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1870 - 752 pages
...their brethren had designated to perform that duty, each of them laying down a number of books, and saying, " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." By that act, prior to any charter, they became, according to the principles of Common Law, the creators... | |
 | Theology - 1870 - 588 pages
...worthy fathers who assembled in Bradford, in 1700, and laying each a few volumes on the table said, " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony;" and that Harvard grew out of the dying munificence of an humble minister of the gospel. Though small... | |
 | Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg - 1871 - 728 pages
...and presented them to the association; using words to this effect as he laid them on the table : " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." This act of depositing the books has ever since been considered the beginning of the college. The entire... | |
 | Bible - 1871 - 832 pages
...meeting, " each of the ten founders brought with him some books, and, placing them on the table, said : ' I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony.' " Nor did our forefathers confine their attention to the establishment of libraries in their higher... | |
 | James Parton - Civilization - 1871 - 730 pages
...store of volumes those which he thought suitable, and laying them upon a table, said these words : " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." The number of volumes thus collected was only forty ; but they were all solid folios of the olden time.... | |
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