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... seen with " The Island - World of the Pacific . " The writer believes it may fulfil a useful part , in directing the general interest now felt in the young Island - Kingdom of Hawaii . The perpetuity of the pure Hawaiian race there is ...
... seen with " The Island - World of the Pacific . " The writer believes it may fulfil a useful part , in directing the general interest now felt in the young Island - Kingdom of Hawaii . The perpetuity of the pure Hawaiian race there is ...
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... seen from Below and from Aloft -- Differences in the View made by Differences in the Position and personal Estate of the Beholder - Light from Eternity col- ored by the stained Glass of the Mind - Hope for the Convalescent- Holding a ...
... seen from Below and from Aloft -- Differences in the View made by Differences in the Position and personal Estate of the Beholder - Light from Eternity col- ored by the stained Glass of the Mind - Hope for the Convalescent- Holding a ...
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... seen . Soon the in canoes They had beheld the strangers as they looked over the ship's sides eating something red , ( being water- melon from Monterey , ) and to their imagination it was STRANGE FANCIES OF THE NATIVES . 21 the raw flesh ...
... seen . Soon the in canoes They had beheld the strangers as they looked over the ship's sides eating something red , ( being water- melon from Monterey , ) and to their imagination it was STRANGE FANCIES OF THE NATIVES . 21 the raw flesh ...
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... seen fire and smoke about their mouths from cigars , and they reported them , therefore , to be Fire - gods - gods of the Volcano . They told in an exaggerated manner of the whiteness of their skin , the brightness of their eyes , their ...
... seen fire and smoke about their mouths from cigars , and they reported them , therefore , to be Fire - gods - gods of the Volcano . They told in an exaggerated manner of the whiteness of their skin , the brightness of their eyes , their ...
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... seen in one at such a time . But when they saw Lono's moku there - the moving island of their god - they were not afraid to use their canoes , because their god had come to them , and his ship must be a heiau , a temple . When they ...
... seen in one at such a time . But when they saw Lono's moku there - the moving island of their god - they were not afraid to use their canoes , because their god had come to them , and his ship must be a heiau , a temple . When they ...
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Page 252 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 234 - Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men...
Page 298 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 132 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence.
Page 138 - Thy sinless land, Which eye hath never seen. Visions come and go; Shapes of resplendent beauty round me throng, From angel lips I seem to hear the flow Of soft and holy song.
Page 123 - No, faith, not a jot ; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: As thus; Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to dust ; the dust is earth ; of earth we make loam : And why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel...
Page 252 - To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel. My griefs cry louder than advertisement.
Page 159 - And thou, too, whosoe'er thou art, That readest this brief psalm, As one by one thy hopes depart, Be resolute and calm. O fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Page 261 - Warren Hastings has not left substance enough in India to nourish such another delinquent. My Lords, is it a prosecutor you want? You have before you the Commons of Great Britain as prosecutors; and I believe, my Lords, that the sun, in his beneficent progress round the world, does not behold a more glorious sight than that of men, separated from a remote people by the material bounds and barriers of nature, united by the bond of a social and moral community, — all the Commons of England resenting,...
Page 190 - ... invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of...