The Moravians in LabradorWilliam Oliphant, 1835 - 324 من الصفحات |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Angekok appeared arrived awakening baptism baptized began believe blessing blood boat breth brethren brother called Captain Chateau Bay Christian church coast of Labrador congregation conversion countrymen death desire Drachart drift ice Esqui Esquimaux Europeans expressed faith Father friends gospel Governor of Newfoundland grace Greenland happy hear heard heart heathen holy hope Hopedale Hudson's Bay Company HUGH PALLISER hymn Jens Haven Jesus Kablunat Kapik Kohlmeister labour land Liebisch live Lord maux mercy Mikak miles mission missionaries Moravian morning murders Nain natives never night Okkak peace perceived pray prayer quimaux reached received rein-deer sail savages Saviour seals Segulliak settlement shallop ship shore Siksigak sinners sins sionaries skins sledge snow soon soul spirit station sufferings tears tent thing thou tion tism Torngak Tuglavina vessel voyage weather whale whole wicked wife winter wished words
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 223 - For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
الصفحة 112 - I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and give you an inheritance among all them that are sanctified.
الصفحة 193 - And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
الصفحة 130 - Nivak, from whence he hoped the track to Okkak might still remain entire. To this proposal the company agreed, but when the sledges approached the coast, the prospect before them was truly terrific. The ice having broken loose from the rocks, was forced up and down, grinding and breaking into a thousand pieces against the precipices, with a tremendous noise, which added to the raging of the wind, and the snow driving about in the air, deprived the travellers almost of the power of hearing and seeing...
الصفحة i - Waft, waft, ye winds, His story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole ; Till o'er our ransomed nature The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.
الصفحة 193 - The blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, cleanseth us from all sin.
الصفحة 142 - ... as on a coast unprotected by any islands. Added to this, the hints of the Esquimaux had considerably increased their apprehensions for their safety, and their fears began to get the better of their hopes. All, therefore, joined most fervently in praise and thanksgiving to God, for this signal deliverance...
الصفحة 129 - At the same time the ground-swell had increased so much, that its effect upon the ice became very extraordinary and alarming. The sledges, instead of gliding along smoothly upon an even surface, sometimes ran with violence after the dogs, and shortly after seemed with difficulty to ascend the rising hill ; for the elasticity of so vast a body of ice, of many leagues square, supported by a troubled sea, though in some places three or four yards in thickness, would in some degree occasion an undulatory...
الصفحة 131 - ... be overwhelmed by the immense waves. The sight was tremendous and awfully grand, the large fields of ice raising themselves out of the water, striking against each other, and plunging into the deep, with a violence not to be described, and a noise like the discharge of innumerable batteries of heavy guns. The darkness of the AN ESQUIMAUX LODGING.
الصفحة 133 - The missionaries immediately called aloud to the sleeping Esquimaux to rise and quit the place. They jumped up in an instant. One of them with a large knife cut a passage through the side of the house; and each seizing some part of...