A Narrative of the Establishment and Progress of the Missions to Ceylon and India: Founded by the Late Rev. Thomas Coke, L.L.D., Under the Direction of the Wesleyan-Methodist Conference, Including Notices of Bombay and the Superstitions of Various Religious Sects at that Presidency, and on the Continent of India : with an Introductory Sketch of the Natural, Civil, and Religious History of the Island of Ceylon |
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... possession a letter from an officer in the 80th regiment , wherein he states , that he had found the real tea - plant in the woods of Ceylon , of a quality equal to any that ever grew in China ; and that it was in his power to point out ...
... possession a letter from an officer in the 80th regiment , wherein he states , that he had found the real tea - plant in the woods of Ceylon , of a quality equal to any that ever grew in China ; and that it was in his power to point out ...
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... possession they had acquired . The Portuguese appear to have conducted themselves towards the natives more as conquerors than as friends ; until the natives , roused to resentment by their insolence and oppression , attempted their ...
... possession they had acquired . The Portuguese appear to have conducted themselves towards the natives more as conquerors than as friends ; until the natives , roused to resentment by their insolence and oppression , attempted their ...
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... possession of the coasts , left the interior of the island to the native princes , with whom they kept up a friendly ... possession of the Dutch until 1795 ; when it was taken possession of by the British and East India Company's troops ...
... possession of the coasts , left the interior of the island to the native princes , with whom they kept up a friendly ... possession of the Dutch until 1795 ; when it was taken possession of by the British and East India Company's troops ...
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... possession of the city of Kandy , and had compelled the king to seek shelter among the woods and fastnesses with which the country abounded ; but these advantages were invariably abandoned , as their troops either fell sacrifices to the ...
... possession of the city of Kandy , and had compelled the king to seek shelter among the woods and fastnesses with which the country abounded ; but these advantages were invariably abandoned , as their troops either fell sacrifices to the ...
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... possession of Europeans ; but the amazing difficulties attending the furnishing sup- plies of men and stores , through a country so hilly and overgrown with jungle , have proved a better defence to the Kandyan metropolis than the ...
... possession of Europeans ; but the amazing difficulties attending the furnishing sup- plies of men and stores , through a country so hilly and overgrown with jungle , have proved a better defence to the Kandyan metropolis than the ...
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Page 56 - The God that rules on high, That all the earth surveys, That rides upon the stormy sky, And calms the roaring seas ; This awful God is ours, Our Father and our Love ; He will send down his heavenly powers, To carry us above.
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Page 36 - While place we seek, or place we shun, The soul finds happiness in none ; But, with a God to guide our way, "Tis equal joy to go, or stay.
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Page 334 - Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him ; let him know that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
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