 | English literature - 1830 - 606 pages
...canoe had been dispatched to the missionaries immediately after the victory. ' It was indeed to them a joy unspeakable, — the joy of harvest. In that...anxious winters, and sixteen unproductive summers.' The revolution extended to the Society as well as the Georgian Islands. The most influential of their... | |
 | William Ellis - Ethnology - 1831 - 464 pages
...with surprise, and hastened to render their acknowledgANXIETY FOR RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION. 165 ments of grateful praise to the Most High, under feelings...circumstances that few are privileged to experience. As soon as possible, Mr. Nott was despatched by his companions to Tahiti. On reaching the shores of... | |
 | William Ellis - Ethnology - 1833 - 334 pages
...that of a shoal of fishes, by which Ike (bores he inhabits are occasionally or periodically visited. Pomare's assistance in 1811 ; early in the year 1813...exhilarating satisfaction resulting from the " pleasure of th« Lord" prospering in their hands, in a degree and under circumstances that few are privileged to... | |
 | William Ellis - Ethnology - 1834 - 468 pages
...shoal of fishes, by which the shores he inhabits are occasionally or periodically visited. M2 mindful of those who had been left behind in a state of painful...circumstances that few are privileged to experience. As soon as possible, Mr. Nott was despatched by his companions to Tahiti. On reaching the shores of... | |
 | William Ellis - Ethnology - 1834 - 462 pages
...conflicting emotions of hope and fear. The warrior was seen standing on the prow of his light skiflf, that seemed impatiently dashing through the spray,...circumstances that few are privileged to experience. As soon as possible, Mr. Nott was despatched by his companions to Tahiti. On reaching the shores of... | |
 | Sarah Tappan Smith - Missions - 1841 - 428 pages
...safe, and hastened to render thanks to God, with feelings which it would be impossible to describe. " In that one year they reaped the harvest of sixteen...unproductive summers. They now enjoyed the unexpected but exhilirating satisfaction resulting from the pleasure of the Lord prospering in their hands, in a degree... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1830 - 624 pages
...to the missionaries immediately after the victory. " It was indeed to them a joy unspeakable,—the joy of harvest. In that one year they reaped the harvest of sixteen laborious seed-times,.sixteen dreary and anxious winters, and sixteen unproductive summers." The revolution extended... | |
 | Portfolio - 1844 - 766 pages
...and " hastened to render their acknowledgments of grateful "praise to the Most High: it was indeed the joy of " harvest ! In that one year, they reaped the harvest of " sixteen laborious seed times, sixteen dreary and anxious " winters, and sixteen unproductive summers!" Yet Mr. " Ellis... | |
 | William Ellis - Ethnology - 1853 - 904 pages
...leaped upon the sandy beach. Before they had time to ask a single question, he exclaimed, " Ua pan! Ua pau! i te bure anae ;" Vanquished ! vanquished...circumstances that few are privileged to experience. As soon as possible, Mr. Nott was despatched by his compamons to Tahiti. On reaching the shores of... | |
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Ua pau! i te bure anae ;" Vanquished ! vanquished ! by prayer alone ! His words at first seemed but as words of irony or jest; but the earnestness of his manner, the details he gave, and the intelligence he brought from the king and some of the chiefs,... 
