History of the Sandwich Islands: With an Account of the American Mission Established There in 1820. With a Supplement, Embracing the History of the Wonderful Displays of God's Power in These Islands in 1837-1839. Revised by the Committee of Publication of the American Sunday-School UnionAmerican Sunday-School Union, 1831 - 231 من الصفحات |
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... them to conclude , when they saw ships of the foreigners , that they were ging back their god in triumph . In con- ence of a belief that they discovered the they covered their faces , and prostra selves on the. SANDWICH ISLANDS . 11 ...
... them to conclude , when they saw ships of the foreigners , that they were ging back their god in triumph . In con- ence of a belief that they discovered the they covered their faces , and prostra selves on the. SANDWICH ISLANDS . 11 ...
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... covered their faces , and prostra selves on the ground in his presence ed him gifts of various kinds , and him such religious homage , as is u fered by an idolatrous people , under ence of wild fanaticism . By taking advantage of these ...
... covered their faces , and prostra selves on the ground in his presence ed him gifts of various kinds , and him such religious homage , as is u fered by an idolatrous people , under ence of wild fanaticism . By taking advantage of these ...
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... covered or thatched with grass and eaves . These habitations have no windows or the admittance of light or air , and but one oor , which is so low that a person of com- non size can enter only by crawling upon his ands and knees ...
... covered or thatched with grass and eaves . These habitations have no windows or the admittance of light or air , and but one oor , which is so low that a person of com- non size can enter only by crawling upon his ands and knees ...
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... covered with a slim tinous substance . It is then taken beaten with an instrument of hard words are however so generally adopted in literature , that we have retained the commo writing them . HARVARD COLLEGE LUZORY the desired thinness ...
... covered with a slim tinous substance . It is then taken beaten with an instrument of hard words are however so generally adopted in literature , that we have retained the commo writing them . HARVARD COLLEGE LUZORY the desired thinness ...
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... covered with the co- ar or colours to be added , is carefully and sely pressed by the hand upon the cloth , The tapa is not durable , neither can it be shed , unless it has been soaked in the oil the cocoa - nut , which causes it to ...
... covered with the co- ar or colours to be added , is carefully and sely pressed by the hand upon the cloth , The tapa is not durable , neither can it be shed , unless it has been soaked in the oil the cocoa - nut , which causes it to ...
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الصفحة 193 - Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness; covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful...
الصفحة 172 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
الصفحة 58 - The bottom was covered with lava, and the south-west and northern parts of it were one vast flood of burning matter, in a state of terrific ebullition, rolling to and fro its " fiery surge
الصفحة 58 - ... many craters, rose either round the edge or from the surface of the burning lake. Twentytwo constantly emitted columns of grey smoke, or pyramids of brilliant flame ; and several of these at the same time vomited from their ignited mouths streams of lava, which rolled in blazing torrents down their black indented sides into the boiling mass below.
الصفحة 57 - ... feet deep. The bottom was covered with lava, and the south-west and northern parts of it were one vast flood of burning matter, in a state of terrific ebullition, rolling to and fro its
الصفحة 58 - The grey, and in some places apparently calcined, sides of the great crater before us ; the fissures which intersected the surface of the plain on which we were standing ; the long banks of sulphur on the opposite side of the abyss ; the vigorous action of the numerous small craters on its borders ; the dense columns of vapour and smoke, that rose at the north and south...
الصفحة 59 - Kirauea, darting their fierce light athwart the midnight gloom, unfolded a sight terrible and sublime beyond all we had yet seen. The agitated mass of liquid lava, like a flood of melted metal, raged with tumultuous whirl. The lively...
الصفحة 59 - ... of the abyss ; the vigorous action of the numerous small craters on its borders ; the dense columns of vapour and smoke, that rose at the north and south end of the plain ; together with the ridge of steep rocks by which it was surrounded, rising probably in some places 300 or 400 feet in perpendicular height, presented an immense volcanic panorama, the effect of which was greatly augmented by the constant roaring of the vast furnaces below.
الصفحة 179 - I be mistaken in the causes and the nature of those varied emotions, under the circumstances in which they were beheld — and in one of whom I had never heard, and whom I had never before seen ? No, I could not : and if so — what is the language they speak ? They plainly say that this poor woman, grown gray in the ignorance and varied degradation of heathenism, by " the lamp let down from heaven...
الصفحة 57 - After walking some distance over the sunken plain, which in several places sounded hollow under our feet, we at length came to the edge of the great crater, where a spectacle, sublime and even appalling, presented itself before us —