...replied, "No, Madam, far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws ; but I have set an acorn which, when it becomes an...oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." how will that stand with the Queen's Honour, and with the Requests of the French and Spanish Kings,...

...madam," he replied, ' far "be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws ; but I have set an acorn which, when it becomes an oak, God knows what will be the fruit thereof.' Sir Walter was one of the commissioners to Mary Queen of Scots...

...then have been said what Sir Walter Mlldmay. the founder of Emmanuel College, said to Queen Elizabeth. 'I have set an acorn which, when it becomes an oak. God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.' " is the Inscription at the back of the Harvard College plate In the historical series engraved for...

...of the colleges at Cambridge, .who, when challenged about the object of his foundation answered, " I have set an acorn which, when it becomes an oak, God only knows what may be the fruit thereof".1 Perhaps in an ordinary way we do not sufficiently recognise...

...foundation :' ' No, madam, far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws ; but I have set an acorn which, when it becomes an...oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.' Still, he had in his mind to secure by his foundation something that he did not think could be got...

...the queen said to him, " So, Sir Walter, I hear you have erected a Puritan foundation." He replied, " I have set an acorn which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." Ah, but he did himself know. Oaks bear acorns, not thistles, and acorns produce new oaks of the same...

...Elizabeth taunting him with having erected a Puritan Foundation. " I have," said Sir Walter Mildmay (1584), "set an acorn which when it becomes an oak God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." The date of this retort religious seems reflected in the wonderfully picturesque view of the "Olde...

...madam," he replied, "far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws ; but I have set an acorn, which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit therefrom." And Sir Walter Mildmay expressed no doubt truthfully what was his own intention as a founder,...

...replied: '• No, madam, far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws, but I have set an acorn which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will ba the fruit thereof." From the acorn thus planted sprang the first college of America, and so, in...

...replied: " No, madam, far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws, but I have set an acorn which, when it becomes an oak. God alono knows what will bo the fruit thereof." From the acorn thus planted sprang the first college of...