The Island World of the Pacific: Being ... Travel Through the Sandwich Or Hawiian Islands and Other Parts of PolynesiaHarper & Brothers, 1851 - 406 pàgines |
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Pàgina 17
... Polynesia is there- fore less than half a million , of which about eighty thousand have been gathered into the Christian Church by English and American missionaries . These islands are classified , according to their ori- gin.
... Polynesia is there- fore less than half a million , of which about eighty thousand have been gathered into the Christian Church by English and American missionaries . These islands are classified , according to their ori- gin.
Pàgina 41
... half hour in which the soul lives and has intercourse with its Maker is worth more than years in which every thing is enjoyed but God . It was after such happy experience that the gentle Cowper wrote those lines : There , if thy Spirit ...
... half hour in which the soul lives and has intercourse with its Maker is worth more than years in which every thing is enjoyed but God . It was after such happy experience that the gentle Cowper wrote those lines : There , if thy Spirit ...
Pàgina 42
... half , but is slender . The head , throat , and hind parts of the neck are brown , the back of a deep ash color , and all the under parts white . When sitting or attempting to walk , they have been compared to a dog that has been taught ...
... half , but is slender . The head , throat , and hind parts of the neck are brown , the back of a deep ash color , and all the under parts white . When sitting or attempting to walk , they have been compared to a dog that has been taught ...
Pàgina 45
... half arms , they look like so many children with white aprons . Hence they are not improperly said " to unite in them- selves the qualities of men , fowls , and fishes . Like men , they are upright ; like fowls , they are feathered ...
... half arms , they look like so many children with white aprons . Hence they are not improperly said " to unite in them- selves the qualities of men , fowls , and fishes . Like men , they are upright ; like fowls , they are feathered ...
Pàgina 51
... half way by a bad lurch of the ship , he would either fall upon his knees , and do his best to hold on to him- self and his dish , or else , if so fortunate as to get his foot against the capstan , he would throw his body so far forward ...
... half way by a bad lurch of the ship , he would either fall upon his knees , and do his best to hold on to him- self and his dish , or else , if so fortunate as to get his foot against the capstan , he would throw his body so far forward ...
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The Island World of the Pacific: Being ... Travel Through the Sandwich Or ... Henry Theodore Cheever Visualització completa - 1851 |
The Island World of the Pacific: Being ... Travel Through the Sandwich Or ... Henry Theodore Cheever Visualització completa - 1856 |
The Island World of the Pacific: Being ... Travel Through the Sandwich Or ... Henry Theodore Cheever Visualització completa - 1855 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 205 - Wisdom and spirit of the universe ! Thou soul that art the eternity of thought, That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul...
Pàgina 204 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Pàgina 345 - Eternal HOPE ! when yonder spheres sublime Pealed their first notes to sound the march of Time, Thy joyous youth began — but not to fade. — When all the sister planets have decayed ; When...
Pàgina 228 - The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast: Theirs buxom health, of rosy hue, Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer, of vigor born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light That fly the approach of morn.
Pàgina 260 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat ? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Pàgina 224 - Numbers of all diseased ; all maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony, all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums.
Pàgina 160 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Pàgina 109 - There with its waving blade of green. The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush, like a banner bathed in slaughter...
Pàgina 37 - At length did cross an Albatross: Thorough the fog it came : As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God's name. It ate the food it ne'er had eat, And round and round it flew. The ice did split with a thunder-fit; The helmsman steered us through! And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners