A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands: With Remarks Upon the Natural History of the Islands, Origin, Languages, Traditions, and Usages of the InhabitantsJohn Snow, 1840 - 154 páginas |
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A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands John Williams Visualização de excertos - 1869 |
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Página 47 - Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.
Página 143 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Página 134 - If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; And if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, And the Lord shall reward thee.
Página 40 - Peace," which she has proved to be on many occasions. The hanging of the rudder occasioned me some difficulty ; for, having no iron sufficiently large for pintles, we made them from a piece of a pickaxe, a cooper's adze, and a large hoe. They answered exceedingly well ; but, being doubtful of this, I prepared a substitute for a rudder, in case any part of it should give way.
Página 38 - After some deliberation I determined to attempt to build a vessel ; and, although I knew little of ship-building, and had scarcely any tools to work with, I succeeded, in about three months, in completing a vessel between 70 and 80 tons burden, with no other assistance than that which the natives could render, who were wholly unacquainted with any mechanical art.
Página 12 - Their glory, look! it is birds' feathers, soon rotten ; but our God is the same for ever." Tamatoa, the king, also addressed the meeting; and, perhaps, a finer illustration of the similitude of the knowledge of the Lord covering the earth as the waters cover the channels of the great deep, will not readily be found, than was used by this Christian chief: — "Let us...
Página 150 - I do not assert, I would not intimate, that all the people are real Christians; but I merely state the delightful fact, that the...
Página 32 - she will not, take it, and go immediately; I am in haste.' Perceiving me to be in earnest, he took it, and asked, ' What must I say ? ' I replied, ' You have nothing to say, the chip will say all I wish.
Página 129 - How manifold are thy works, O God, In wisdom hast thou made them all ; The earth is full of thy treasures.
Página 32 - I had come to work one morning without my square, I took up a chip, and, with a piece of charcoal, wrote upon it a request that Mrs. Williams would send me that article. I called a chief, who was superintending his portion of the work, and said to him : — '"Friend, take this, go to our house, and give it to Mrs. Williams.