 | Abiel Holmes - America - 1805 - 556 pages
...minister! pave a number of books, and, laying them on a table, pronounced words to this effect : " 1 give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." About 40 volumes in folio were thus given. Several other donation!, both of bouks and money, were soon... | |
 | Benjamin Trumbull - Connecticut - 1818 - 574 pages
...gentleman gave a number of books, and laying them upon a table, pronounced words to this effect, " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." About forty volumes in folio were thus given. The trustees took possession of them, and appointed Mr.... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - Indians - 1819 - 546 pages
...in New York, undertook a voyage to England, at his own expense, in order to enlist the ministry once more in the cause. The presence of five Indian Sachems,...Norwich, gave six hundred acres of land, and ' all ' the glass and nails which should be necessary to ' build a college-house and hall.' The charter was... | |
 | Theology - 1827 - 684 pages
...work had just been done, the pastors of Connecticut came forward each with his contribution, saying " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." In the days of Tennent and Edwards, the fathers of the Presbyterian church placed their students in... | |
 | Abiel Holmes - America - 1829 - 614 pages
...ministers gave a number of books, and, laying them on a table, pronounced words to this effect : " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." About 40 volumes in folio were thus given. Several other donations, both of books and money, were soon... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 pages
...venerable fathers who founded Yale College, brought forward each his stock of books with the words, " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony," yet it is not in this way, pre-eminently, that their sons have sought to build up the institution which... | |
 | Joel Hawes - Hartford (Conn.) - 1835 - 92 pages
...purpose, each one brought a number of folios in his arms, and placing them on a table, said, — " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony."* The learning contained in these ponderous tomes might not have been of much value ; but the spirit... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 654 pages
...worthy fathers, who assembled at Branford, 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 Harvard, to the dying munificence of an humble minister of the gospel, who landed on the shores... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1837 - 496 pages
...fathers, who, in 1700, assembled at Branford, and each one, laying a few volumes on a table, said, ' I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony/ " But the political education of the people is due to the happy organization of towns, which here,... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1839 - 494 pages
...fathers, who, in 1700, assembled at Branford, and each one, laying a few volumes on a table, said, ' I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony.' " But the political education of the people is due to the happy organization of towns, which here,... | |
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