Answer to the Abbé́ Dubois: In which Misrepresentations, Etc. in His "Letters on the State of Christianity in India", are Pointed Out and the Evangelization of India is Demonstrated Practicable1824 - Missions - 214 pages |
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... periods , to friends who had requested his opinion on the subjects therein discussed . In the first letter he states his unfavourable impression respecting the efforts made to evangelize the Hindoos , by pro- posing and answering two ...
... periods , to friends who had requested his opinion on the subjects therein discussed . In the first letter he states his unfavourable impression respecting the efforts made to evangelize the Hindoos , by pro- posing and answering two ...
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... period of his life , have proved of no advantage to him in pro- moting the sacred cause in which he was engaged as a religious teacher . During that time he has vainly , in his exertions to promote the cause of Christianity , watered ...
... period of his life , have proved of no advantage to him in pro- moting the sacred cause in which he was engaged as a religious teacher . During that time he has vainly , in his exertions to promote the cause of Christianity , watered ...
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... period of nine or ten years , into no less than twenty - four Asiatic languages . This brilliant success has not in the least dazzled me , nor altered my opinion , or di- minished my scepticism , on the entire inadequacy of such means ...
... period of nine or ten years , into no less than twenty - four Asiatic languages . This brilliant success has not in the least dazzled me , nor altered my opinion , or di- minished my scepticism , on the entire inadequacy of such means ...
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... period of about sixteen years for its completion ; and yet modern criticism has found many errors and mistakes in it , although obtained by so much trouble and care . " ( p . 36. ) Why then , I would ask , upon the author's own ...
... period of about sixteen years for its completion ; and yet modern criticism has found many errors and mistakes in it , although obtained by so much trouble and care . " ( p . 36. ) Why then , I would ask , upon the author's own ...
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... period I have lived in India , in the capa- city of a missionary , I have made , with the assistance of a native missionary , in all , between two and three hundred converts of both sexes . Of this number , two thirds were pariahs , or ...
... period I have lived in India , in the capa- city of a missionary , I have made , with the assistance of a native missionary , in all , between two and three hundred converts of both sexes . Of this number , two thirds were pariahs , or ...
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