Three Visits to Madagascar During the Years 1853-1854-1856: Including a Journey to the Capital : with Notices of the Natural History of the Country and of the Present Civilization of the PeopleJ.W. Bradley, 1859 - 426 pàgines |
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Pàgina 73 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place...
Pàgina 57 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Pàgina 386 - And when the sentences were all pronounced, and the officer was about to return to the chief authorities, the four sentenced to be burned requested him to ask that they might be killed first, and then burned. But they were burned alive. " When the officer was gone, they took those eighteen away to put them to death. The fourteen they tied by the hands and the feet to long poles, and carried on men's shoulders.
Pàgina 386 - The fourteen they tied by the hands and the feet to long poles, and carried on men's shoulders. And these brethren prayed and spoke to the people as they were being carried along. And some who beheld them said that their faces were like the faces of angels.
Pàgina 386 - ... and carried on men's shoulders. And these brethren prayed and spoke to the people as they were being carried along. And some who beheld them said that their faces were like the faces of angels. And when they came to the top of...
Pàgina 385 - That is the day of the great God, for in six days the Lord made all his works. But God rested on the seventh, and he caused it to be holy ; and I rest, or keep sacred that day.
Pàgina 19 - Radama he was assassinated, and the present ruler was raised to the supreme authority. For a time the schools and the religious teaching of the missionaries were allowed, but it soon became evident that the policy of the government was changed. The influence of the idol-keepers, and of the supporters of divination and other superstitions of the country, was soon restored to its former supremacy.
Pàgina 277 - Luildei's tree rather than the traveller's tree. Its leaves form the thatch of all the houses on the eastern side of the island. The stems of its leaves form the partitions, and often sides of the houses ; and the hard outside bark is stripped from the inner and soft part, and having been beaten out flat, is laid for flooring ; and I have seen the entire floor of a long...
Pàgina 384 - ... testimony which they bore, when brought before judges and rulers, for His name's sake. The following exact and verbatim statements refer to the severe persecution in the year 1849, and will make their own appeal to every heart. They are offered without apprehension, as those to whom they refer have passed into a world where " the fury of the oppressor" and the cruelty of the persecutor can never enter. " On the 14th of March, 1849, the officer before whom the Christians were examined said, '...
Pàgina 384 - Kings and rulers are given by God that we should serve and obey them, and render them homage. Nevertheless, they are only men like ourselves ; when we pray we pray to God alone.