Memoirs of Captain James Wilson: Containing an Account of His Enterprises and Sufferings in India, His Conversion to Christianity, His Missionary Voyage to the South Seas, and His Peaceful and Triumphant DeathT. Hamilton, 1819 - 286 Seiten |
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... attempt the passage to Cuddalore , near which sir Eyre Coote was encamped . The governor of Madras , Mr. Smith , had heard of Mr. Wilson , and though a young man sent for him , and en- quired if he would attempt to carry down the ships ...
... attempt the passage to Cuddalore , near which sir Eyre Coote was encamped . The governor of Madras , Mr. Smith , had heard of Mr. Wilson , and though a young man sent for him , and en- quired if he would attempt to carry down the ships ...
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... attempt his escape from a captivity which appeared to him worse than death . He had observed , as he walked the ramparts , the possibility of dropping down into the river ; and though he neither knew the height of the wall , nor the ...
... attempt his escape from a captivity which appeared to him worse than death . He had observed , as he walked the ramparts , the possibility of dropping down into the river ; and though he neither knew the height of the wall , nor the ...
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... attempt an escape , as well as for his resolute rejec- tion of all the tempting offers made him . The other officers were at large ; and among them was general sir David Baird , so lately the avenger of their wrongs , when he stormed ...
... attempt an escape , as well as for his resolute rejec- tion of all the tempting offers made him . The other officers were at large ; and among them was general sir David Baird , so lately the avenger of their wrongs , when he stormed ...
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... attempt to weaken his prejudices by re- moving his objections . This is an object worthy of consideration in all personal debates upon moral and religious sub- jects , for the feelings of most men are more reluctant to follow the ...
... attempt to weaken his prejudices by re- moving his objections . This is an object worthy of consideration in all personal debates upon moral and religious sub- jects , for the feelings of most men are more reluctant to follow the ...
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... attempt to prove such an absur- dity as that three are one , and one is three , and that the book which contains such preposterous positions is the word of God . — I have admitted , said the minis- ter , that the scriptures contain some ...
... attempt to prove such an absur- dity as that three are one , and one is three , and that the book which contains such preposterous positions is the word of God . — I have admitted , said the minis- ter , that the scriptures contain some ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admit appear believe benevolent bless captain James Wilson Captain Sims captain Wilson cause character christian church circumstances conduct conversation Cuddalore DAVID BOGUE dear friend death deism deists directors divine divine grace doctrine Duff Eimeo eternal evidences excited fact faith father favour fear feel give gospel grace happy Haweis heart heathen holy hope Horndean human influence islands ject Jesus Christ kind Lord ment mercy mind minister mission missionaries Missionary Society morning natives nature ness never object observed Otaheite Palmerston Island perceive persons pleasure Pomarre Portsea prayer predestination present principles probability profession Providence racter reason received religion religious replied revelation Rio de Janeiro sailed salvation saved scriptures sentiments Seringapatam sermon ship sion sir Eyre Coote soon soul South Sea South Sea islands spirit sufferings tain Tapoa ther things thought tion trust truth tures vessel voyage zeal
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 125 - Self was obnoxious, and good works he had none, for it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do.
Seite 108 - Father's covenant purposes : for whom he did foreknow, them he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son...
Seite 150 - Strong feeling is naturally contagious ; and if, as the wise man observes, as ' iron sharpeneth iron, so doth the countenance of a man his friend...
Seite 142 - If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own : but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Seite 101 - That such monuments, and such actions or observances, be instituted, and do commence from the time that the matter of fact was done.
Seite 273 - Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover. 22 Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?
Seite 172 - Thames, having for their flag, hoisted at the mizen-top-gallant-mast-head, three doves argent, on a purple field, bearing olive branches in their bills.
Seite 260 - For he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.