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... witnessed elsewhere . These several boundaries also , by the very physical magnificence with which they define India , seem to afford to it a prestige of pre - eminent greatness among the nations of the earth . Nor , while the outline ...
... witnessed elsewhere . These several boundaries also , by the very physical magnificence with which they define India , seem to afford to it a prestige of pre - eminent greatness among the nations of the earth . Nor , while the outline ...
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... witnessed stupendous avalanches , glaciers , and all the phenomena of Alpine regions . The high table - lands , of which the several moun- tains are the supports , and to which their sloping and often steep ascents lead the traveller ...
... witnessed stupendous avalanches , glaciers , and all the phenomena of Alpine regions . The high table - lands , of which the several moun- tains are the supports , and to which their sloping and often steep ascents lead the traveller ...
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... witnessed in villages or small towns , let me explain to you the details of the village economy of India . Those which I shall present are from my own field of labour , in the province of Guju- rat , but will be found to harmonize with ...
... witnessed in villages or small towns , let me explain to you the details of the village economy of India . Those which I shall present are from my own field of labour , in the province of Guju- rat , but will be found to harmonize with ...
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... witnessed , in the burial - grounds appropriated re- spectively to some of the above powers of Europe , sig- nificant memorials of their departed greatness . The governors of the factories of the several nations , and other influential ...
... witnessed , in the burial - grounds appropriated re- spectively to some of the above powers of Europe , sig- nificant memorials of their departed greatness . The governors of the factories of the several nations , and other influential ...
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... witnessed . They develop motives to which India has been hitherto a stranger . They carry with them a " de- monstration " of spirit and power , which is unknown to the carnal systems of her selfish priests . The religious faith the ...
... witnessed . They develop motives to which India has been hitherto a stranger . They carry with them a " de- monstration " of spirit and power , which is unknown to the carnal systems of her selfish priests . The religious faith the ...
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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...
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.