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... thoughts , perhaps , like those which a navigator in a balloon would now have , whose anchor should catch at midnight on some floating island of the great ocean of air . In the morning , when the natives on shore first beheld the ...
... thoughts , perhaps , like those which a navigator in a balloon would now have , whose anchor should catch at midnight on some floating island of the great ocean of air . In the morning , when the natives on shore first beheld the ...
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... thoughts ; and where God is not honored , civilization can neither be established , nor can it hold its own . It was because the glorious Gospel of the Son of God went first to this Island Heart of the Pacific in the year 1820 , that ...
... thoughts ; and where God is not honored , civilization can neither be established , nor can it hold its own . It was because the glorious Gospel of the Son of God went first to this Island Heart of the Pacific in the year 1820 , that ...
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... thoughts until enthroned there by Christianity , brought in God's own providential time , and inaugurated in his own way in the Heart of the Pacific , so as best to answer the part to be fulfilled LINKS IN THE CHAIN OF PROVIDENCE . 53 ...
... thoughts until enthroned there by Christianity , brought in God's own providential time , and inaugurated in his own way in the Heart of the Pacific , so as best to answer the part to be fulfilled LINKS IN THE CHAIN OF PROVIDENCE . 53 ...
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... thought , from the events of battles which have transpired upon them . Waikapu - The water where the conch was blown , and the engage- ment began . Waiehu - The water where the com batants smoked with dust and perspiration . Wai- luku -
... thought , from the events of battles which have transpired upon them . Waikapu - The water where the conch was blown , and the engage- ment began . Waiehu - The water where the com batants smoked with dust and perspiration . Wai- luku -
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... thought to indicate a resemblance and cognate origin with the Hebrew and other Orient- al tongues . The use of the particle no in the way of affirmation or affirmative emphasis , like yes indeed , no indeed , is very peculiar , as being ...
... thought to indicate a resemblance and cognate origin with the Hebrew and other Orient- al tongues . The use of the particle no in the way of affirmation or affirmative emphasis , like yes indeed , no indeed , is very peculiar , as being ...
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American amount beautiful become better Board body called canoe chief Christ Christian church civilization clouds coral death dollars duties earth English eyes fact feet five foreign four France French give given Gospel hand Hawaii Hawaiian heart Honolulu hope human hundred important increase interest keep King labor Lahaina land language laws less living look means meeting miles mind Minister mission missionaries Molokai moral mountain native nature never observed ocean once Pacific pastor perhaps persons port present Providence race reached reason received reef remarks respective Sandwich Islands seen ships side sometimes soon souls spirits station supplies taken teachers thing thought thousand tion true turned United vessels whole
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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...