 | William Maxwell Blackburn - Christianity - 1879 - 752 pages
...fathers, who, in 1700, assembled at Bradford, and each one, laying a few volumes on a table, said, ' I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony. ' " The Church was congregational in polity, and established by law. The Confessions of Westminster... | |
 | R. H. Howard, Henry E. Crocker - New England - 1879 - 512 pages
...in Branford, these men brought forty folio volumes, and laid them down on a table with these words : "I give these books for the founding of a college in this Colony." This body of men, acting for tha churches and ministry of the Colony of Connecticut, by this act founded... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - United States - 1879 - 380 pages
...was formed." In 1700 ten clergymen came together, and each one laying some books on a table, said : " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony. This was afterward called Yale College, in honor of Elihu Yale, of England, who gave it a large sum... | |
 | Mary Elsie Thalheimer - United States - 1880 - 434 pages
...his own scanty library, met at Branford, in 1700, and, depositing their gifts upon a table, said, ' ' I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." The first terms were held at Wethersfield, later ones at Saybrook; but in 1716 the college was planted... | |
 | Education - 1887 - 528 pages
...Haven, where each man rose, and placing upon the table such books as he had brought with him, declared, ''I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." About forty volumes were thus deposited, t'he nucleus of the future library of Yale College. Elihu... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - United States - 1881 - 408 pages
...clergymen came together, and each one laying some books on a table, said : " I Manners and Customs. 117 give these books for the founding of a college in this colony. This was afterward called Yale College, in honor of Elihu Yale, of England, who gave it a large sum... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1883 - 660 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,... | |
 | James Parton - Biography - 1883 - 860 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.... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1883 - 412 pages
...clergymen came together, and each one laying some books on a table, said : " I Manners and, Customs. 117 give these books for the founding of a college in this colony. This was afterward called Yale College, in honor of Elihu Yale, of England, who gave it a large sum... | |
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