 foretold these two things of the Corporation; first, that if it were possible for them to steer clear of me, they will do so; secondly, that, if it were possible for them to act foolishly, they will do so. " The perpetual envy with which my essays to...  The Library of American Biography - Page 329edited by - 1836Full view - About this book
 | Josiah Quincy - Learned institutions and societies - 1840 - 650 pages
...essays to serve the kingdom of God are treated among them, and the dread that Satan has of my beating vp his quarters at the College, led me into the former...the College are managed, led me into the latter."* Cotton Mather well understood, that, by the election of Sewall, the Corporation sought to conciliate... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1841 - 740 pages
...' The perpetual envy with which my essays to serve the kingdom of God are treated among them, rand the dread that Satan has of my beating up his quarters...the College are managed, led me into the latter.'" — Vol. i. pp. 330, 331. 354 Quincy's History of Harvard University. [April, We extract a few passages... | |
 | History - 1869 - 398 pages
...envy with which my essays to serve the king' dom of God are treated among them, and the ' dread tint Satan has of my beating up his ' quarters at the College,...the College are managed, ' led me into the latter." Mr. Sewall declined the appointment. On the eighteenth of November, the Rev. Benjamin Colman, of the... | |
 | United States - 1869 - 396 pages
...envy with which my essays to serve the king' dom of God are treated among them, and the ' dread tint Satan has of my beating up his ' quarters at the College,...the College are managed, ' led me into the latter." Mr. Sewall declined the appointment. On the eighteenth of November, the Rev. Benjamin Colman, of the... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - Witchcraft - 1869 - 108 pages
...my essays to serve the king" do in of God are treated among them, and the 4 'dread tint Satan lias of my beating up his " quarters at the College, led...the College are managed, " led me into the latter.'' Mr. Sewall declined the appointment. On the eighteenth of November, the Rev. Benjamin Colman, of the... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - Boston (Mass.) - 1889 - 540 pages
...things of the corporation : first, that if it were possible for them to steer clear of me, they would do so ; secondly, that if it were possible for them...of the college are managed led me into the latter." The year that Governor Winthrop died was the same in which King Charles the First was beheaded, and... | |
 | William Roscoe Thayer - 1890 - 66 pages
...There were many aspirants, including the irrepressible Cotton Mather, who records in his diary : " I always foretold these two things of the Corporation...the College are managed, led me into the latter." Sewall declined, and the Rev. Benja- , min Cjlman was chosen ; but his experience as Fellow had warned... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1891 - 714 pages
...epidemical expectation of the country, chose a modest young man, of whose piety (and little else) everyone gives a laudable character. I always foretold these...of the college are managed led me into the latter." Cotton Mather was, withal, something of a demagogue, between whom and the corporation there could be... | |
 | Colonial Society of Massachusetts - Local history - 1904 - 628 pages
...College met, and, contrary to the epidemical expectation of the country, chose a modest young man, of whose piety (and little else) every one gives a...the College are managed, led me into the latter." ' On the eighteenth of November the Reverend Benjamin Colman, of Brattle Street Church, Boston, was... | |
 | New England - 1895 - 634 pages
...will do so. " The perpetual envy with which my essays to serve the kingdom of God are treated amoiig them, and the dread that Satan has of my beating up...of the college are managed led me into the latter." Cotton Mather was, withal, something of a demagogue, between whom and the corporation there could be... | |
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