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... less than eight or nine hundred bishops and priests . And what have they done for the heathen ? with Protestant missionaries and the changes ; and they who know its past know - I had almost said intuitively - its present , and ...
... less than eight or nine hundred bishops and priests . And what have they done for the heathen ? with Protestant missionaries and the changes ; and they who know its past know - I had almost said intuitively - its present , and ...
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... less width : sometimes their spurs or offsets reach even to the shore . The several mountainous ranges of India invest its scenery with unspeakable grandeur , and impart to it a magnificent variety . The traveller passes over terrific ...
... less width : sometimes their spurs or offsets reach even to the shore . The several mountainous ranges of India invest its scenery with unspeakable grandeur , and impart to it a magnificent variety . The traveller passes over terrific ...
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... less affect the traveller with admiration and delight . Their course marks out grand geographical divisions . Those which wind along the plain of the Indus run from east to west , and empty themselves into the Arabian Sea . Those which ...
... less affect the traveller with admiration and delight . Their course marks out grand geographical divisions . Those which wind along the plain of the Indus run from east to west , and empty themselves into the Arabian Sea . Those which ...
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... less worthy of attention meet the eye and delight the contemplation . In that land Nature seems to have displayed her richest resources , and exhibited her greatest wonders . She has clothed its surface with every shade of beauty . She ...
... less worthy of attention meet the eye and delight the contemplation . In that land Nature seems to have displayed her richest resources , and exhibited her greatest wonders . She has clothed its surface with every shade of beauty . She ...
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... less kinds of grain and vegetable which are essential to the support of its myriads of inhabitants . Aro- matic spices and rich vegetable dyes , with the sugar- cane , are among the luxuries of its produce . The cot- ton - plant ...
... less kinds of grain and vegetable which are essential to the support of its myriads of inhabitants . Aro- matic spices and rich vegetable dyes , with the sugar- cane , are among the luxuries of its produce . The cot- ton - plant ...
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India and the Gospel, Or an Empire for the Messiah (Classic Reprint) William Clarkson No preview available - 2018 |
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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...
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