| Abiel Holmes - 1805 - 556 頁
...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 - 1818 - 574 頁
...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 - 1819 - 590 頁
...they met at Branford, each bringing three or four large books, and laying them upon the table, with ' I give these books for the founding of a ' college in this colony.' As it was doubtful whether they could hold property, it was agreed to petition for a charter. To promote... | |
| Timothy Dwight - 1821 - 542 頁
...Branford the same year, each of them brought a number of books ; and presenting them to the Society, said, " I give these books for the founding of a College in this Colony." Antecedently to this event, the subject had been seriously canvassed by the Clergy, particularly Messrs.... | |
| 1827 - 684 頁
...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 - 1829 - 614 頁
...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 頁
...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 - 1835 - 92 頁
...colony, having met for the 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 - 1836 - 652 頁
...to the ten 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... | |
| Edward Everett - 1840 - 440 頁
...to the ten 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... | |
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