Travels in South-eastern Asia, Embracing Hindustan, Malaya, Siam, and China: With Notices of Numerous Missionary Stations, and a Full Account of the Burman Empire; with Dissertations, Tables, Etc, Volume 1 |
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Akyab ANDREW FULLER Arracan bamboo Bay of Bengal bazar beautiful Bengal boats Boodh Boodhism British Burman called cheroot chiefly Chinese Chittagong Christian church classes color common deck diameter districts eight English exported Farther India feet fifty foreigners forty four fruit Gaudama gilded give grows hundred idols images inches India inhabitants Irrawaddy islands Judson Karens kind king kyoungs labor language large tree leaves less Maulmain Mergui miles mission missionary months mountains native assistants never noble officers pagoda passed Pegu persons petrifactions population preach present priests principal Prome provinces quantity Rangoon received religion resembles respect rice river round rupees Sabbath sacred sail sapan wood scarcely season seems seen seldom ship Shyans Siam side sometimes species Tavoy Tenasserim thing thousand ticals timber tion town tracts twelve various villages whole wood worship zayats
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Page 18 - Thou art, O God, the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see ; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from Thee, Where'er we turn, Thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are Thine!
Page 68 - Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope; 2. Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 171 - Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest.
Page 210 - In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left : and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
Page 273 - This Is a new work on morals, for academic use, and we welcome it with much satisfaction. It IS the result of several years' reflection and experience in teaching, on the part of its justly distinguished author ; and if it is not perfectly what we could wish, yet, in the most important respects, it supplies a want which has been extensively felt. It is, we think, substantially sound in its...
Page 14 - Hail, Source of Being ! Universal Soul Of heaven and earth ! Essential Presence, hail ! To Thee I bend the knee ; to Thee my thoughts, Continual, climb ; who, with a master-hand, Hast the great whole into perfection touch'd.
Page 20 - Producing change of beauty ever new. —Ah! that such beauty, varying in the light Of living nature, cannot be portrayed By words, nor by the pencil's silent skill; But is the property of him alone Who hath beheld it, noted it with care, And in his mind recorded it with love!
Page 86 - the truth of God into a lie " ! All this to " worship and serve the creature more than the Creator, who is God over all and blessed forever...