To the East by Way of the West: Giving an Account of what the Author Saw in Heathen Lands During His Late Missionary Voyage Around the World ... |
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... remains a large number of them unemployed , and angry with the new order of things that has dealt so hardly with them . They are ready for stratagems . Already two efforts at rebellion have occurred , one very recently . The first was ...
... remains a large number of them unemployed , and angry with the new order of things that has dealt so hardly with them . They are ready for stratagems . Already two efforts at rebellion have occurred , one very recently . The first was ...
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... remains any trace of the eyes ; and my traveling companion remarked that , from the condition of another part of his body , it was evident that colic must be a prevalent disease in Japan . This fragment of a god I myself saw , and I saw ...
... remains any trace of the eyes ; and my traveling companion remarked that , from the condition of another part of his body , it was evident that colic must be a prevalent disease in Japan . This fragment of a god I myself saw , and I saw ...
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... remains true , that of all Asiatic nations they are the most vigorous . Indeed , they are the only people of the East who go abroad in such numbers as to affect the conditions of neighboring countries - the only people who are largely ...
... remains true , that of all Asiatic nations they are the most vigorous . Indeed , they are the only people of the East who go abroad in such numbers as to affect the conditions of neighboring countries - the only people who are largely ...
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... remains removed to this one , and the monument was erected by his son . We con- templated the grave with tender interest , and felt that the Church was honored by the presence of one of her earliest messengers to China , who sleeps so ...
... remains removed to this one , and the monument was erected by his son . We con- templated the grave with tender interest , and felt that the Church was honored by the presence of one of her earliest messengers to China , who sleeps so ...
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... remains were interred at sea , in lat . 2 deg . 29 min . S. , and long . 59 deg . 29 min . E. " This tablet , inscribed by his surviving missionary companions and sons in the ministry , is designed as a public and constant memorial of ...
... remains were interred at sea , in lat . 2 deg . 29 min . S. , and long . 59 deg . 29 min . E. " This tablet , inscribed by his surviving missionary companions and sons in the ministry , is designed as a public and constant memorial of ...
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Page 339 - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Page 577 - The servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth ; and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil...
Page 284 - And Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 592 - And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Page 580 - For as many as are led by the Spirit of GOD, they are the sons of GOD. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear ; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of GOD...
Page 585 - Will you be ready with all faithful diligence to banish and drive away all erroneous and strange doctrines contrary to God's word...
Page 578 - When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: but when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.
Page ix - ... always preaching to himself, like an angel from a cloud, but in none ; carrying some, as St. Paul was, to heaven in holy raptures, and enticing others by a sacred art and courtship to amend their lives : here picturing a vice so as to make it ugly to those that practised it, and a virtue, so as to make it beloved even by those that loved it not ; and all this with a most particular grace and an inexpressible addition of comeliness.
Page 578 - When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us: and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are...
Page 325 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.