History of a Voyage to the Land of BrazilWhen the famous anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss arrived in Rio de Janeiro, he had one book in his pocket: Jean de Léry's History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil. Léry had undertaken his fascinating and arduous voyage in 1556, as a youthful member of the first Protestant mission to the New World. Janet Whatley presents the first complete English translation of one of the most vivid early European accounts of life in the New World. |
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Page 236 - Lie not to one another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds: and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free; but Christ is all, and in all.
Page 236 - That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and that ye put on the new
Page 236 - the image of him that created him: where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free; but Christ is all, and in all.
Page 148 - to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another; and there was
Page 203 - Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? Or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail?”
Page 236 - The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
Page 36 - And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.]
Page 236 - the whole substance of the bread is transformed into the body of Christ and the whole substance of the wine into his blood, with only the appearance of the bread and wine remaining.