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Page 249 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Page 187 - ... to consider the Sandwich Islands as an Independent State, and never to take possession, either directly or under the title of Protectorate, or under any other form, of any part of the territory of which they are composed.
Page 257 - Some of the natives cried out, " Good is the word of God : it is now well with Aitutaki! The good word has taken root at Aitutaki!
Page 177 - What, I again ask, was the issue of this great trial ? The most perfect, full, complete, and triumphant victory for the missionaries that could have been asked by their most devoted friends.
Page 467 - The land of Zeb'ulun and the land of Naph'tali, toward the sea, across the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles - the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death light has dawned'.
Page 60 - Society that its design is not to send Presbyterianism, Independency, Episcopacy, or any other form of church order and government (about which there may be difference of opinion among serious persons), but the glorious Gospel of the blessed God, to the heathen; and that it shall be left (as it ought to be left) to the minds of the persons whom God may call into the Fellowship of His Son from among them to assume for themselves such form of church government as to them shall appear most agreeable...
Page 67 - Before me were great mountains of every shade of blue, pink, gray, and purple, torn and broken into every conceivable fantastic shape, with deep, dark, mysterious gorges, showing almost black by contrast with the surrounding brightness, precipitous peaks and pinnacles rising one above the other...
Page 406 - The King gives her Majesty his old and favourite war-club, the former, and, until lately, the only known law of Fiji. In abandoning club law, and adopting the forms and principles of civilised societies, he laid by his old weapon and covered it with the emblems of peace.
Page 354 - The following extract from Dr. Hector's account of Milford Sound shows the probable mode of its formation : — "Three miles from the entrance of the Sound it becomes contracted to the width of half a mile, and its sides rise perpendicularly from the water's edge, sometimes for 2,000 feet, and then slope at a high angle to the peaks that are covered with perpetual snow. The scenery is quite equal to the finest that can be enjoyed by the most difficult and toilsome journeys into the Alps of the interior...
Page 122 - We were not long at a loss as to what to ascribe it ; the missionary had been at work here, and his exertions had been based upon a firm foundation ; the savage had been changed to a reasonable creature. Among the inhabitants was a native missionary, who had been instrumental in this work. If the missionaries had effected nothing else, they would deserve the thanks of all those who roam over this wide expanse of ocean, and incur its many unknown and hidden dangers.