| James Hingston Tuckey - Commerce - 1815 - 626 pages
...Portuguese missions, it appears, have had but little success in converting the negroes to Christianity : nor is this to be wondered at, when it is remembered that the missionaries were bigotted monks, who instead of endeavouring to gain the confidence of the negroes... | |
| James Hingston Tuckey - Commerce - 1815 - 624 pages
...Portuguese missions, it appears, have had but little success in converting the negroes to Christianity : nor is this to be wondered at, when it is remembered that the missionaries were bigotted monks, who instead of endeavouring to gain the confidence of the negroes... | |
| John Hood - Australia - 1843 - 506 pages
...then instinctively placing your hand upon your pockets, as some suspiciouslooking fellow passes you. Nor is this to be wondered at ; when it is remembered, that every seventh man you meet in the street has "left his country for his country's good" ; or is the... | |
| India - 1864 - 502 pages
...that the number of Hindu women who have received any thing like an education is infinitesimally small. Nor is this to be wondered at, when it is remembered that the efforts heretofore made for their enlightenment have been isolated and not often well-directed.... | |
| John Macdonald Henderson (capt.) - 1851 - 328 pages
...nothing. The children are, however, in general, VOL. II. 0 sufficiently initiated into all sorts of evil ; nor is this to be wondered at, when it is remembered that they are surrounded by convicts, and are frequently nursed by the worst women which the prisons of... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1894 - 596 pages
...that different observers ascribe very different degrees of vitality to the typhoid bacillus in water, nor is this to be wondered at when it is remembered that the typhoid bacilli introduced into the waters may have been possessed of very different degrees of... | |
| Robert William Browne - Latin literature - 1857 - 490 pages
...the Calabrian village of Terra di Feriolo, and is now preserved in the Imperial Museum of Vienna." There is scarcely any difference between the Latinity...thus enumerated the existing monuments of the old Roman language and its constituent elements, it remains to compare the Latin and Greek alphabets, for... | |
| James Richardson Logan - 1858 - 496 pages
...infrequently putting to death any Burman petty official who had the temerity to approach their locations ; nor is this to be wondered at when it is remembered that the J5urrir.ni government was known to these wild races only as a remorseless tyranny, from which,... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1907 - 872 pages
...and in the shortest possible time, the French marshals have never been surpassed, if indeed equalled. Nor is this to be wondered at when it is remembered that year after year these corps lived together on what was practically aiwar footing, and had ample opportunity... | |
| Numismatics - 1872 - 358 pages
...on Scottish Numismatics, there are many points which are still involved in considerable obscurity. Nor is this to be wondered at, when it is remembered that the most valuable materials necessary for fully illustrating the history of the Scottish coinage are... | |
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