Life in the Sandwich Islands: Or, The Heart of the Pacific, as it was and isA.S. Barnes & Company, 1856 - 355 Seiten |
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... Fact - Experiments of Peyronnel - Philosophical Analysis -Secrets of Nature's Laboratory - Results of Coral ... Facts gathered from Navigators - Coral of Prose and of Poetry - Moss Corals by the Microscope - Zoophytic Tribes classified ...
... Fact - Experiments of Peyronnel - Philosophical Analysis -Secrets of Nature's Laboratory - Results of Coral ... Facts gathered from Navigators - Coral of Prose and of Poetry - Moss Corals by the Microscope - Zoophytic Tribes classified ...
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... Fact - The Pea - hen everywhere - Native Volubility and Destitution of Shame - Charities of the Waialua Church - A Manual La- bor School - How established and why abandoned - We journey to Ewa -A successful Experiment at Self - support ...
... Fact - The Pea - hen everywhere - Native Volubility and Destitution of Shame - Charities of the Waialua Church - A Manual La- bor School - How established and why abandoned - We journey to Ewa -A successful Experiment at Self - support ...
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... facts make them to have been . The last human sacrifices are said to have been made at this place in 1818. One man was then sacrificed for putting on the malo ( girdle ) of a chief , one for eating a forbidden article of food , one for ...
... facts make them to have been . The last human sacrifices are said to have been made at this place in 1818. One man was then sacrificed for putting on the malo ( girdle ) of a chief , one for eating a forbidden article of food , one for ...
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... facts like the following turn up in the year 1850 . When the Sandwich Islands Mission was first start- ed , a young wheelwright in Massachusetts was called upon to contribute for it , and was told that his quota would be a dollar . He ...
... facts like the following turn up in the year 1850 . When the Sandwich Islands Mission was first start- ed , a young wheelwright in Massachusetts was called upon to contribute for it , and was told that his quota would be a dollar . He ...
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... fact shows that , if men wish to invest their money where it will yield a dividend of eighteen hundred per cent ... facts . A plantation on the Island of Maui , which a few years ago cost less than $ 5000 , has recently ( in 1851 ) been ...
... fact shows that , if men wish to invest their money where it will yield a dividend of eighteen hundred per cent ... facts . A plantation on the Island of Maui , which a few years ago cost less than $ 5000 , has recently ( in 1851 ) been ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 285 - The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Seite 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...
Seite 252 - It is a good divine that follows his own instructions; I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Seite 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.
Seite 111 - twas an unimaginable sight ! Clouds, mists, streams, watery rocks and emerald turf, Clouds of all tincture, rocks and sapphire sky, Confused, commingled, mutually inflamed, Molten together, and composing thus, Each lost in each, that marvellous array Of temple, palace, citadel, and huge Fantastic pomp of structure without name, In fleecy folds voluminous, enwrapped.
Seite 277 - And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
Seite 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...
Seite 151 - Through the high wood echoing shrill: Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedge-row elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate, Where the great sun begins his state, Robed in flames, and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight...
Seite 348 - Majesty shall, upon mutual requisitions by them, or their ministers, officers, or authorities respectively made, deliver up to justice all persons who, being charged with the crime of murder, or assault with intent to commit murder, or piracy, or arson, or robbery, or forgery, or the utterance of forged paper, committed within the jurisdiction of either, shall seek an asylum, or shall be found, within the territories of the other...