 | John F. Aiken - 1877 - 176 páginas
...Burke were disregarded, and selfishness prevailed.f Said Lord Chatham in * A marked contrast.- — " Lord, for schools everywhere among us — that before we die we may be so happy, as to see a good school in every plantation in the country." — Prayer of John Eliot... | |
 | 1902 - 874 páginas
...of this assembly may go home and procure a good school to be encoura'ged in the town where he lives. That before we die we may see a good school in every plantation in the country," seems, in our day, to have been fully answered. The founders of the Massachusetts colonies were highly... | |
 | Mary Caroline Crawford - 1914 - 606 páginas
...of this assembly may go home and procure a good school to be encouraged in the town where he lives. That before we die we may see a good school in every plantation in the country! " Eliot died in 1690. How slowly his prayer was answered may be seen in a town report of nearly thirty... | |
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That before we die we may see a good school in every plantation in the country," seems, in our day, to have been fully answered. 