Life in the Sandwich Islands: Or, The Heart of the Pacific, as it was and is |
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... Truth - Remarkable Answers of Natives- Heathen Destitution of common Ideas - Consequent Inappreciation of Scripture Similar Experience of Missionaries in the East - Remarkable Cases in Proof - Fruits of the great Revival - Reasonings of ...
... Truth - Remarkable Answers of Natives- Heathen Destitution of common Ideas - Consequent Inappreciation of Scripture Similar Experience of Missionaries in the East - Remarkable Cases in Proof - Fruits of the great Revival - Reasonings of ...
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... truth externally , so was it the work of the Divine Spirit internally to procure its reception to a degree , so unprecedented and remarkable , by the mind and heart of the Hawaiian nation . Some of the steps in that process , and the ...
... truth externally , so was it the work of the Divine Spirit internally to procure its reception to a degree , so unprecedented and remarkable , by the mind and heart of the Hawaiian nation . Some of the steps in that process , and the ...
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... Truth breathed by cheerfulness . " No one who has been through the barren parts of Hawaii , or East Maui , can fail to have noticed this . beautiful shrub ; how , as by elective affinity , it chooses those unwatered , desolate tracts of ...
... Truth breathed by cheerfulness . " No one who has been through the barren parts of Hawaii , or East Maui , can fail to have noticed this . beautiful shrub ; how , as by elective affinity , it chooses those unwatered , desolate tracts of ...
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... Truth , and conscious that the will is free , Unswerving we shall move , as if impelled By strict necessity along the path Of order and of good . Whate'er we see , Whate'er we feel , by agency direct Or indirect , shall tend to feed and ...
... Truth , and conscious that the will is free , Unswerving we shall move , as if impelled By strict necessity along the path Of order and of good . Whate'er we see , Whate'er we feel , by agency direct Or indirect , shall tend to feed and ...
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... truth at the head of this Chapter , that there is evermore a law of compensation and equipoise running through all things , has its comment and corroboration in the character and history of a remarkable man , through the earthly scene ...
... truth at the head of this Chapter , that there is evermore a law of compensation and equipoise running through all things , has its comment and corroboration in the character and history of a remarkable man , through the earthly scene ...
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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 285 - The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
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 - It is a good divine that follows his own instructions; I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
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 111 - twas an unimaginable sight ! Clouds, mists, streams, watery rocks and emerald turf, Clouds of all tincture, rocks and sapphire sky, Confused, commingled, mutually inflamed, Molten together, and composing thus, Each lost in each, that marvellous array Of temple, palace, citadel, and huge Fantastic pomp of structure without name, In fleecy folds voluminous, enwrapped.
Page 277 - And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
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...
Page 151 - Through the high wood echoing shrill: Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedge-row elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate, Where the great sun begins his state, Robed in flames, and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight...
Page 348 - Majesty shall, upon mutual requisitions by them, or their ministers, officers, or authorities respectively made, deliver up to justice all persons who, being charged with the crime of murder, or assault with intent to commit murder, or piracy, or arson, or robbery, or forgery, or the utterance of forged paper, committed within the jurisdiction of either, shall seek an asylum, or shall be found, within the territories of the other...