The Island World of the Pacific: Being ... Travel Through the Sandwich Or Hawiian Islands and Other Parts of Polynesia |
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... Canoes - They recognize their god Lono- They pay Divine Worship to Captain Cook - They grow familiar with the Haöles - They smart under Indignities and Exactions - The bent bow snaps - They are undeceived - The Denouement - He groans ...
... Canoes - They recognize their god Lono- They pay Divine Worship to Captain Cook - They grow familiar with the Haöles - They smart under Indignities and Exactions - The bent bow snaps - They are undeceived - The Denouement - He groans ...
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... Canoe takes us to Wailuku - Elements of the Beautiful at Home and Abroad - Morning on the Mountain - Effect of natural Scenery upon Childhood - Curious Hawaiian Etymologies - A Catalogue of queer Ap- pellatives - The peculiar Genius and ...
... Canoe takes us to Wailuku - Elements of the Beautiful at Home and Abroad - Morning on the Mountain - Effect of natural Scenery upon Childhood - Curious Hawaiian Etymologies - A Catalogue of queer Ap- pellatives - The peculiar Genius and ...
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... Canoe - Sketches of the Mis- sionary Station of Hana - Natural Features and Productions - Riding up to the Clouds - Cave where Kaahumanu was born - Two strange Things in the Kingdom of Nature and Kingdom of Grace - A volcanic Bathing ...
... Canoe - Sketches of the Mis- sionary Station of Hana - Natural Features and Productions - Riding up to the Clouds - Cave where Kaahumanu was born - Two strange Things in the Kingdom of Nature and Kingdom of Grace - A volcanic Bathing ...
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... Canoe - Sketch of an Hawaiian Col- lege - Internal Economy and Discipline - Origin and History - Faculty and Course of Study - Intention of the Founders - Ability and Useful- ness of the first Graduates - Laws ahead of Morals - Wisdom ...
... Canoe - Sketch of an Hawaiian Col- lege - Internal Economy and Discipline - Origin and History - Faculty and Course of Study - Intention of the Founders - Ability and Useful- ness of the first Graduates - Laws ahead of Morals - Wisdom ...
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... PLAYING VALLEY AND MOUNTAINS OF WAILUKU A SANDWICH ISLANDS DOUBLE CANOE .. A CIRCULAR CORAL ISLAND OF THE PACIFIC 66 p . 174 . p . 197 . " 814 HAALE MAUNA LERUAVANA NIIHAD NAULA COOLAU WAILUA KAUAI WAINE 16 CONTENTS .
... PLAYING VALLEY AND MOUNTAINS OF WAILUKU A SANDWICH ISLANDS DOUBLE CANOE .. A CIRCULAR CORAL ISLAND OF THE PACIFIC 66 p . 174 . p . 197 . " 814 HAALE MAUNA LERUAVANA NIIHAD NAULA COOLAU WAILUA KAUAI WAINE 16 CONTENTS .
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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.
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