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... interest " this parting gift ? To his brethren in the ministry , —to those honoured men who are set for the defence of the gospel . Brethren , whose office it is to labour in England , and for England , to you I bequeath not this book ...
... interest " this parting gift ? To his brethren in the ministry , —to those honoured men who are set for the defence of the gospel . Brethren , whose office it is to labour in England , and for England , to you I bequeath not this book ...
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... interest - the dioramic character of Oriental life - visits the shores of Bengal for a sublimer purpose than animates mercantile or military adventurers : he goes to fami- liarize himself with its moral features , -to develop them to ...
... interest - the dioramic character of Oriental life - visits the shores of Bengal for a sublimer purpose than animates mercantile or military adventurers : he goes to fami- liarize himself with its moral features , -to develop them to ...
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... interest . That land is India . Its peninsular portion is washed by the waves of the Arabian Sea on the west , and by the Bay of Bengal on the east . The Indus , rising on the table - land of Thibet , and winding its course through the ...
... interest . That land is India . Its peninsular portion is washed by the waves of the Arabian Sea on the west , and by the Bay of Bengal on the east . The Indus , rising on the table - land of Thibet , and winding its course through the ...
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... interest to the Christian .. These mountains are inhabited , these valleys are thronged , these rivers are navigated by millions of men . It is not forms of animate or inanimate nature that give to India its 8 EXTENT OF INDIA . power of ...
... interest to the Christian .. These mountains are inhabited , these valleys are thronged , these rivers are navigated by millions of men . It is not forms of animate or inanimate nature that give to India its 8 EXTENT OF INDIA . power of ...
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... interests him as the dwelling - place of man - as the vast sphere in which myriads of men of like passions with himself are born and die . He there sees on an unprecedented scale how large is the human family— how countless are the ...
... interests him as the dwelling - place of man - as the vast sphere in which myriads of men of like passions with himself are born and die . He there sees on an unprecedented scale how large is the human family— how countless are the ...
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Page 37 - If a country remain for a series of years the scene of continued pillage and massacre, so that the villages cannot be inhabited, the scattered villagers nevertheless return whenever the power of peaceable possession revives.
Page 36 - The village communities are little republics, having nearly everything that they want within themselves, and almost independent of any foreign relations. They seem to last where nothing else lasts. Dynasty after dynasty tumbles down : revolution succeeds to revolution; Hindu, Pathan, Moghul, Mahratta, Sikh, English are masters in turn ; but the village communities remain the same...
Page 262 - Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona, because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven. And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Page 261 - I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed to Him against that day.
Page 317 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Page 36 - An hostile army passes through the country. The village communities collect their cattle within their walls, and let the enemy pass unprovoked. If plunder and devastation be directed against themselves, and the force employed be irresistible, they flee to friendly villages at a distance, but when the storm has passed over they return and resume their occupations.
Page 295 - And whereas to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy of this nation...
Page 331 - Lectures on Christian Theology. By the late Rev. George Payne, LL.D., Professor of Divinity in the Western College. With a Memoir by Rev. John Pyer, and Reminiscences by the Rev.