Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China and Australasia, Volume 12

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Wm. H. Allen & Company, 1821 - Asia
 

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Page 228 - they also are to be had accursed, that presume to say that every man shall be saved by the law or sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that law, and the light of nature : for Holy Scripture doth set out unto us only the name of Jesus Christ, whereby men must be saved.
Page 422 - Scenes sung by him who sings no more, His bright and brief career is o'er, And mute his tuneful strains. Q,uench'd is his lamp of varied lore, That loved the light of song to pour. A distant and a deadly shore Has Leyden's cold remains ! Lord of the
Page 37 - prospects led, Of the poor Indian begged a leafy bed. Cold on Canadian hills, or Minden's plain, Perhaps that parent mourned her soldier slain, Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drop mingling with the milk
Page 155 - books were as freely admitted into the world as any other birth. The issue of the brain was no more stifled than the issue of the womb. No envious Juno sat cross-legged over the nativity of any man's intellectual
Page 95 - he had ever received of the Eternal God, his Maker, his Preserver, his Judge, he threw himself down on a cushion, and lay listening to the music, and gazing at the parade spread out before him ! " As for us and our present, we were huddled up and hurried away, without much ceremony.
Page 95 - tract. Our hearts now rose to God for a display of His grace. " Oh ! have mercy on Burmah ! have mercy on her King!" But, alas! the time was not yet come. He held the tract long enough to read the first two sentences,
Page 95 - Power, may preach our religion in these dominions, and that those who are pleased with our preaching, and wish to listen to or be guided by it, whether foreigners or Burmans, may be exempt from Government molestation, they present themselves to receive the favour of the
Page 130 - How sweet to the heart Is the thought of to-morrow, When hope's fairy pictures bright colours display ! How sweet, when we can from futurity borrow A balm for the griefs that afflict us to-day ! When wearisome sickness has taught me to languish For health, and the comfort it bears on its wing, Let me hope (oh ! how soon it
Page 94 - waiting at his levee. We here, for the first time, disclosed our character and object ; told him that we were Missionaries, or ' propagators of religion; ' that we wished to appear before the Emperor, and present our Sacred Books, accompanied with a Petition. He took the Petition into his hand, looked over about half of it, and then familiarly asked
Page 95 - crawled forward and presented it. His Majesty began at the top, and deliberately read it through. In the mean time I gave Moung Zah a copy of a tract, which was put into the handsomest style and dress possible. After the

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