History of the Sandwich Islands: With an Account of the American Mission Established There in 1820. With a Supplement, Embracing the History of the Wonderful Displays of God's Power in These Islands in 1837-1839. Revised by the Committee of Publication of the American Sunday-School UnionAmerican Sunday-School Union, 1831 - 231 Seiten |
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... improving such a mass of inhabitants , even if they mutually understood each other's lan- guage , so long as they were obliged to confine themselves to verbal communications . An individual can address but a few persons at the same time ...
... improving such a mass of inhabitants , even if they mutually understood each other's lan- guage , so long as they were obliged to confine themselves to verbal communications . An individual can address but a few persons at the same time ...
Seite 102
... improvement they had made in the short space of three months , under every possible disadvantage , would have done ... improved systems of instruction could afford . Though these poor heathen had acquired only some of the first ...
... improvement they had made in the short space of three months , under every possible disadvantage , would have done ... improved systems of instruction could afford . Though these poor heathen had acquired only some of the first ...
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... improvement had on all the natives who either saw or heard of them , was great , though not different in kind from what we should have expected . They did not fail to perceive the advantages which the members of the schools must soon ...
... improvement had on all the natives who either saw or heard of them , was great , though not different in kind from what we should have expected . They did not fail to perceive the advantages which the members of the schools must soon ...
Seite 106
... improvements made , similar to those at other stations . In November , 1820 , it was found necessary to relinquish the station at Kailua for a season . Several circumstances concurred to render this step proper . The king , and chiefs ...
... improvements made , similar to those at other stations . In November , 1820 , it was found necessary to relinquish the station at Kailua for a season . Several circumstances concurred to render this step proper . The king , and chiefs ...
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... improvement in the art of writing ; on the whole , their progress during the last year , has exceeded our most sanguine expec- tations . Could our patrons and friends have witnessed the examination to - day , and heard some of our ...
... improvement in the art of writing ; on the whole , their progress during the last year , has exceeded our most sanguine expec- tations . Could our patrons and friends have witnessed the examination to - day , and heard some of our ...
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Seite 193 - Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness; covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful...
Seite 172 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Seite 58 - The bottom was covered with lava, and the south-west and northern parts of it were one vast flood of burning matter, in a state of terrific ebullition, rolling to and fro its " fiery surge
Seite 58 - ... many craters, rose either round the edge or from the surface of the burning lake. Twentytwo constantly emitted columns of grey smoke, or pyramids of brilliant flame ; and several of these at the same time vomited from their ignited mouths streams of lava, which rolled in blazing torrents down their black indented sides into the boiling mass below.
Seite 57 - ... feet deep. The bottom was covered with lava, and the south-west and northern parts of it were one vast flood of burning matter, in a state of terrific ebullition, rolling to and fro its
Seite 58 - The grey, and in some places apparently calcined, sides of the great crater before us ; the fissures which intersected the surface of the plain on which we were standing ; the long banks of sulphur on the opposite side of the abyss ; the vigorous action of the numerous small craters on its borders ; the dense columns of vapour and smoke, that rose at the north and south...
Seite 59 - Kirauea, darting their fierce light athwart the midnight gloom, unfolded a sight terrible and sublime beyond all we had yet seen. The agitated mass of liquid lava, like a flood of melted metal, raged with tumultuous whirl. The lively...
Seite 59 - ... of the abyss ; the vigorous action of the numerous small craters on its borders ; the dense columns of vapour and smoke, that rose at the north and south end of the plain ; together with the ridge of steep rocks by which it was surrounded, rising probably in some places 300 or 400 feet in perpendicular height, presented an immense volcanic panorama, the effect of which was greatly augmented by the constant roaring of the vast furnaces below.
Seite 179 - I be mistaken in the causes and the nature of those varied emotions, under the circumstances in which they were beheld — and in one of whom I had never heard, and whom I had never before seen ? No, I could not : and if so — what is the language they speak ? They plainly say that this poor woman, grown gray in the ignorance and varied degradation of heathenism, by " the lamp let down from heaven...
Seite 57 - After walking some distance over the sunken plain, which in several places sounded hollow under our feet, we at length came to the edge of the great crater, where a spectacle, sublime and even appalling, presented itself before us —