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... stations first taken , and from which there is constantly emanating a powerful influ- ence throughout the entire group , should have been supported by the people for two or three years past ; * and the late action of the American Board ...
... stations first taken , and from which there is constantly emanating a powerful influ- ence throughout the entire group , should have been supported by the people for two or three years past ; * and the late action of the American Board ...
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... station of this island , where constitu tions debilitated by the long - continued heat and con- finement of a leeward residence , find repair and health from the bracing trades and exercise on GRAZING - GROUNDS BETWEEN THE MOUNTAINS ...
... station of this island , where constitu tions debilitated by the long - continued heat and con- finement of a leeward residence , find repair and health from the bracing trades and exercise on GRAZING - GROUNDS BETWEEN THE MOUNTAINS ...
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... station yet visited . The mission - houses are situated on a gently sloping plain , about half a mile from the base of an abrupt mountainous ridge , that rises in some of its peaks to the height of six or seven thousand feet . The tract ...
... station yet visited . The mission - houses are situated on a gently sloping plain , about half a mile from the base of an abrupt mountainous ridge , that rises in some of its peaks to the height of six or seven thousand feet . The tract ...
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... station which , up to 1850 , has enjoyed the labors of resident missionaries for eighteen years , that the people seem to be better clad , better housed , and to live better than at any other part of this Heart of the Pacific yet ...
... station which , up to 1850 , has enjoyed the labors of resident missionaries for eighteen years , that the people seem to be better clad , better housed , and to live better than at any other part of this Heart of the Pacific yet ...
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... station was first taken by the Rev. J. S. Green , with whom was afterwards associated the Rev. Rich- ard Armstrong , both laborious and practical men . Much benefit has also been derived here from the resi- dence and labors of the blind ...
... station was first taken by the Rev. J. S. Green , with whom was afterwards associated the Rev. Rich- ard Armstrong , both laborious and practical men . Much benefit has also been derived here from the resi- dence and labors of the blind ...
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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...