The Island World of the Pacific: Being ... Travel Through the Sandwich Or Hawiian Islands and Other Parts of Polynesia |
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... bless ; Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health , Truth breathed by cheerfulness . " No one who has been through the barren parts of Hawaii , or East Maui , can fail to have noticed this beautiful shrub ; how , as by elective affinity ...
... bless ; Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health , Truth breathed by cheerfulness . " No one who has been through the barren parts of Hawaii , or East Maui , can fail to have noticed this beautiful shrub ; how , as by elective affinity ...
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... blessed visitation , " says Hollis Read , " had come for the isles of the sea . The English churches had already taken of the spoil of their idols , and were rejoicing and being enriched by their conquests . The American Zion must ...
... blessed visitation , " says Hollis Read , " had come for the isles of the sea . The English churches had already taken of the spoil of their idols , and were rejoicing and being enriched by their conquests . The American Zion must ...
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... blessing him that gives and him that takes . It is of the kind words , attentions , hospitality , and help which love dictates between friend and friend , and from his host to the traveller , and which humanity calls for from the rich ...
... blessing him that gives and him that takes . It is of the kind words , attentions , hospitality , and help which love dictates between friend and friend , and from his host to the traveller , and which humanity calls for from the rich ...
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... blessed , and that the sympathy and prayers of many are with them . Some of them realize to a rare degree Bishop Ken's portraiture of " A Good Priest : " Give me the Priest these graces shall possess : - Of an ambassador the just ...
... blessed , and that the sympathy and prayers of many are with them . Some of them realize to a rare degree Bishop Ken's portraiture of " A Good Priest : " Give me the Priest these graces shall possess : - Of an ambassador the just ...
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... blessing , to preclude much sin and suf- fering on the part of those otherwise unfriended sea- men , who , having no man to care for their souls , are likely to care little for themselves , except how they may secure the pleasures of ...
... blessing , to preclude much sin and suf- fering on the part of those otherwise unfriended sea- men , who , having no man to care for their souls , are likely to care little for themselves , except how they may secure the pleasures of ...
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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...