The Island World of the Pacific: Being ... Travel Through the Sandwich Or Hawiian Islands and Other Parts of PolynesiaHarper & Brothers, 1851 - 406 pàgines |
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Pàgina 25
... reached the margin of the water , between the fire of the boats , waved with his hat for them to cease firing and come in ; and while he was doing this , a chief from behind stabbed him with one of our iron daggers , just under the ...
... reached the margin of the water , between the fire of the boats , waved with his hat for them to cease firing and come in ; and while he was doing this , a chief from behind stabbed him with one of our iron daggers , just under the ...
Pàgina 31
... reached the door of a house , burst his way in , and fell on the floor , terrified even to faintness and insensibility . He imagined that the ghost of a chief , who had deceased the day before , had a firm gripe upon his throat , and ...
... reached the door of a house , burst his way in , and fell on the floor , terrified even to faintness and insensibility . He imagined that the ghost of a chief , who had deceased the day before , had a firm gripe upon his throat , and ...
Pàgina 36
... bread - fruit tree , with its eight - lobed leaves and golden fruit . At half past ten I reached a beautiful table - land , where , by the lapse of MAN FROM MAINE VS. ROMISH PRIEST . 37 time and 36 LIFE IN THE SANDWICH ISLANDS .
... bread - fruit tree , with its eight - lobed leaves and golden fruit . At half past ten I reached a beautiful table - land , where , by the lapse of MAN FROM MAINE VS. ROMISH PRIEST . 37 time and 36 LIFE IN THE SANDWICH ISLANDS .
Pàgina 38
... reaching it , the mis- sionary establishment hove in sight , with its thatched roofs and whitened walls , and an air of ... reached here before , so that I found a room and entertainment ready , with a missionary's cordial welcome to it ...
... reaching it , the mis- sionary establishment hove in sight , with its thatched roofs and whitened walls , and an air of ... reached here before , so that I found a room and entertainment ready , with a missionary's cordial welcome to it ...
Pàgina 44
... reaching the place in safety . Whenever war was proclaimed , and during the period of actual hos- tilities , a white flag was unfurled on the top of a tall spear , at each end of the inclosure , and until the conclusion of peace , it ...
... reaching the place in safety . Whenever war was proclaimed , and during the period of actual hos- tilities , a white flag was unfurled on the top of a tall spear , at each end of the inclosure , and until the conclusion of peace , it ...
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The Island World of the Pacific: Being ... Travel Through the Sandwich Or ... Henry Theodore Cheever Visualització completa - 1851 |
The Island World of the Pacific: Being ... Travel Through the Sandwich Or ... Henry Theodore Cheever Visualització completa - 1856 |
The Island World of the Pacific: Being ... Travel Through the Sandwich Or ... Henry Theodore Cheever Visualització completa - 1855 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 252 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Pàgina 234 - Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men...
Pàgina 298 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Pàgina 132 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence.
Pàgina 138 - Thy sinless land, Which eye hath never seen. Visions come and go; Shapes of resplendent beauty round me throng, From angel lips I seem to hear the flow Of soft and holy song.
Pàgina 123 - No, faith, not a jot ; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: As thus; Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to dust ; the dust is earth ; of earth we make loam : And why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel...
Pàgina 252 - To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel. My griefs cry louder than advertisement.
Pàgina 159 - And thou, too, whosoe'er thou art, That readest this brief psalm, As one by one thy hopes depart, Be resolute and calm. O fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Pàgina 261 - Warren Hastings has not left substance enough in India to nourish such another delinquent. My Lords, is it a prosecutor you want? You have before you the Commons of Great Britain as prosecutors; and I believe, my Lords, that the sun, in his beneficent progress round the world, does not behold a more glorious sight than that of men, separated from a remote people by the material bounds and barriers of nature, united by the bond of a social and moral community, — all the Commons of England resenting,...
Pàgina 190 - ... invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of...