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... believed that more knowledge of that country and its inhabi- tants , and of the results of the missionary enterprise and of the facilities which now exist for promoting it , would excite increas- ing interest in this cause . In 1827 ...
... believed that more knowledge of that country and its inhabi- tants , and of the results of the missionary enterprise and of the facilities which now exist for promoting it , would excite increas- ing interest in this cause . In 1827 ...
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... believed to have originated in India and for many years its ravages were confined to that country , but it has now become known by sorrowful experience in nearly all parts of the * The following is an extract from the writer's journal ...
... believed to have originated in India and for many years its ravages were confined to that country , but it has now become known by sorrowful experience in nearly all parts of the * The following is an extract from the writer's journal ...
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... believed to be the best that could be found in any country , better than a voyage on sea , or a residence in Europe or America . Bengal and the lands bordering on the Ganges , in some places for 100 miles and more on each side of the ...
... believed to be the best that could be found in any country , better than a voyage on sea , or a residence in Europe or America . Bengal and the lands bordering on the Ganges , in some places for 100 miles and more on each side of the ...
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... believed chronology of the country . The same sacred books contain other things yet more mar- vellous . Thus it is asserted that in the Satya yuga , human life was 100,000 years , and the human stature was 21 cubits , or about 37 feet ...
... believed chronology of the country . The same sacred books contain other things yet more mar- vellous . Thus it is asserted that in the Satya yuga , human life was 100,000 years , and the human stature was 21 cubits , or about 37 feet ...
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... believed in India for many hundred years past . I have often seen maps of the earth drawn by the Hindus according to these notions , with mount Su- meru in the centre of it , and then the different seas encircling it . inhabitants of ...
... believed in India for many hundred years past . I have often seen maps of the earth drawn by the Hindus according to these notions , with mount Su- meru in the centre of it , and then the different seas encircling it . inhabitants of ...
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Page 431 - 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 224 - He resolved, in . the gloomy recesses of a mind 'capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance, and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those, against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together, was no protection.
Page 414 - And his disciples asked him, saying, " Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?" Jesus answered, "Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents : but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
Page 589 - Come forth out of thy royal chambers, O Prince of all the kings of the earth ! put on the visible robes of thy imperial majesty, take up that unlimited sceptre which thy almighty Father hath bequeathed thee ; for now the voice of thy bride calls thee, and all creatures sigh to be renewed.
Page 608 - When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Page 589 - For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure •offering : for my name diatt be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.
Page 589 - Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
Page 224 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
Page 609 - If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her. And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.
Page 607 - Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house ; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.