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... tribes in Natural History . The elephant , the rhinoceros , the bison , the wild buffalo , 1 1 In the course of my missionary tours I have often met with elephants in the jungles and open plains , but when they have been in 1 tigers ...
... tribes in Natural History . The elephant , the rhinoceros , the bison , the wild buffalo , 1 1 In the course of my missionary tours I have often met with elephants in the jungles and open plains , but when they have been in 1 tigers ...
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... tribe and other reptiles , some of which are venomous and even deadly in their bite , may be seen almost daily . Not ... tribes , many of them singularly beautiful , but these are 1 A friend of mine in North Ceylon , when out in the ...
... tribe and other reptiles , some of which are venomous and even deadly in their bite , may be seen almost daily . Not ... tribes , many of them singularly beautiful , but these are 1 A friend of mine in North Ceylon , when out in the ...
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... tribes , we have it in our power to convey a boon of inestimable value " the word of truth , the gospel of salvation . " However interesting it might prove to narrate the events connected with eastern conquest , that issued in the ...
... tribes , we have it in our power to convey a boon of inestimable value " the word of truth , the gospel of salvation . " However interesting it might prove to narrate the events connected with eastern conquest , that issued in the ...
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... tribes and people , speaking different languages and entertaining diversified forms of reli- gious belief , may well be regarded as the most astonishing phenomenon that the human mind was ever called to con- template . That something ...
... tribes and people , speaking different languages and entertaining diversified forms of reli- gious belief , may well be regarded as the most astonishing phenomenon that the human mind was ever called to con- template . That something ...
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... tribes of mankind , and blessed above all with the light and life of Revelation , it cannot be conceived that her relations with India , where she rules one - fifth of the population of the globe , are only those of a secular nature ...
... tribes of mankind , and blessed above all with the light and life of Revelation , it cannot be conceived that her relations with India , where she rules one - fifth of the population of the globe , are only those of a secular nature ...
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Aborigines ancient appear attained beautiful Bengal Bishop Boora Brahmans Budha Calcutta called ceremonies Ceylon chaplain character Christ Christian Christianity in India Church Missionary Society civil connected connexion deity demon distinguished divine doctrines earth English eternal European evil existence faith favour festivals goddess gods Gospel heathen heaven Hindu female Hinduism holy honour human India and Ceylon influence institution Jesuits Khonds knowledge labours language literature Madras Mahabharat ment mind Mission missionaries moral nations native nature numerous object observed occasion origin Pantheism peculiar Pennu period person Portuguese possessed practice present priest principle promote provinces Ramayana Ravana reference regard relation religion religious remarkable respect rites sacred sacrifice Sanscrit says seen sentiments Shánárs shrine Siva Society soul spirit Sudra superstition Supreme Tamil Tamil language Tari temples things tion Tranquebar tribes truth various Vedas veneration victim village Vishnu whilst worship writers Yudhisthira
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Page 492 - Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him...
Page 493 - He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me : and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Page 508 - Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ : that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand 'fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel...
Page 413 - Well done, good and faithful servants, " enter ye into the joy of your Lord.
Page 37 - So much of any law or usage now in force within the territories subject to the government of the East India Company as inflicts on any person forfeiture of rights or property, or may be held in any way to impair 500 or affect any right of inheritance, by reason of his or her renouncing, or having been excluded from the communion of any religion, or being deprived of caste...
Page 446 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Page 492 - Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing...
Page 54 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all...
Page 492 - There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female, for we are all one in Christ Jesus.
Page 474 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.