A History of the West Indies: Containing the Natural, Civil, and Ecclesiastical History of Each Island; with an Account of the Missions Instituted in Those Islands, from the Commencement of Their Civilization, But More Especially of the Missions which Have Been Established in that Archipelago by the Society Late in Connexion with the Rev. John Wesley, Svazek 1Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon, 1808 |
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Strana iv
... distant monu- ment , which your joint benefactions , under the grace and providence of God , have contributed to raise . Having acted as a medium of your bounty , and transmitted beyond the Atlantic the favors which you have so ...
... distant monu- ment , which your joint benefactions , under the grace and providence of God , have contributed to raise . Having acted as a medium of your bounty , and transmitted beyond the Atlantic the favors which you have so ...
Strana 11
... distant parts , it may not be improper , after having given some general views of the islands which make the grand subject of our history , to give a concise account of the most considerable missions which have been sent into foreign ...
... distant parts , it may not be improper , after having given some general views of the islands which make the grand subject of our history , to give a concise account of the most considerable missions which have been sent into foreign ...
Strana 17
... distant ages and regions , we not only discover the different productions of every climate , and every zone , but we have an opportunity of estimating the extent and diversity of the human intellect , in all its progressive stages of ...
... distant ages and regions , we not only discover the different productions of every climate , and every zone , but we have an opportunity of estimating the extent and diversity of the human intellect , in all its progressive stages of ...
Strana 21
... distant regions may be justly as- cribed to commerce ; the establishment of commerce , to the ex- cellencies of policy , in its direction of that civilization which must be admitted to have a previous existence ; while the excel ...
... distant regions may be justly as- cribed to commerce ; the establishment of commerce , to the ex- cellencies of policy , in its direction of that civilization which must be admitted to have a previous existence ; while the excel ...
Strana 29
... distant probability of success . Ac- customed to nothing but savage manners among those of their own colour , and living under the absolute dominion of every brutal passion , the negroes could have had no previous concep- tions of those ...
... distant probability of success . Ac- customed to nothing but savage manners among those of their own colour , and living under the absolute dominion of every brutal passion , the negroes could have had no previous concep- tions of those ...
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Strana 64 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver ev'ry mountain's head; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies: The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Strana 111 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Strana 111 - For the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead...
Strana 56 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Strana 243 - IN FRANCE, BUT LEFT THAT COUNTRY FOR HIS RELIGION AND CAME TO SETTLE IN THIS ISLAND, WHERE HE WAS SWALLOWED UP IN THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE IN THE YEAR 1692 AND BY THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD WAS BY ANOTHER SHOCK THROWN INTO THE SEA, AND MIRACULOUSLY SAVED BY SWIMMING UNTIL A BOAT TOOK HIM UP; HE LIVED MANY YEARS AFTER IN GREAT REPUTATION, BELOVED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM, AND MUCH LAMENTED AT HIS DEATH...
Strana 112 - Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves ; who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Strana 153 - And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
Strana 153 - And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of music.
Strana 117 - Whether you are divinities or mortal men, we know not. You have come into these countries with a force against which, were we inclined to resist it, resistance would be folly: we are all therefore at your mercy. But if you are men subject to mortality like ourselves, you cannot be unapprised that after this life there is another, wherein a very different portion is allotted to good and bad men. If therefore you expect to die and believe with us that...
Strana 64 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light ; When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene...