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... ? or for ideas of any kind to be communicated ? Without some idea of their literature , how can we become ac quainted with the ideas and modes of expression common to those whose good we seek ? Whatever information may be communi- ( iv )
... ? or for ideas of any kind to be communicated ? Without some idea of their literature , how can we become ac quainted with the ideas and modes of expression common to those whose good we seek ? Whatever information may be communi- ( iv )
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... expressed , will be gratefully receiv- ed . Books published in India too , which in any degree bear on its welfare , will be deemed fit subjects for notice . Nor will Original Papers , or short Essays , though less within their design ...
... expressed , will be gratefully receiv- ed . Books published in India too , which in any degree bear on its welfare , will be deemed fit subjects for notice . Nor will Original Papers , or short Essays , though less within their design ...
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... expressed a wish that he would turn his attention to the natives of Bengal . This coinciding with Mr. T.'s own ideas , he from that time turned his attention to the study of the language ; He and making a voyage to England in 1792 , he ...
... expressed a wish that he would turn his attention to the natives of Bengal . This coinciding with Mr. T.'s own ideas , he from that time turned his attention to the study of the language ; He and making a voyage to England in 1792 , he ...
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... expressed my surprize , reminding him that if the goddess really possessed the extraordinary powers ascribed to her , ' the temple might surely have been repaired in one night ; and at any rate it was a great proof of their want of ...
... expressed my surprize , reminding him that if the goddess really possessed the extraordinary powers ascribed to her , ' the temple might surely have been repaired in one night ; and at any rate it was a great proof of their want of ...
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... expressed their conviction that such an establishment will be of the greatest service , and have ac- cordingly began to carry the plan into execution . It is intended to instruct these Zealanders in some of the more simple arts , such ...
... expressed their conviction that such an establishment will be of the greatest service , and have ac- cordingly began to carry the plan into execution . It is intended to instruct these Zealanders in some of the more simple arts , such ...
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Page 270 - God hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on the face of the earth,' — it is manifestly the duty of all Christians who enjoy the light of the present day, when the inconsistency of slavery, both with the dictates of humanity and religion, has been demonstrated, and is generally seen and acknowledged, to use their honest, earnest, and unwearied...
Page 183 - And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so, falling down on his face, he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
Page 172 - Christ, who, though he was rich, yet for our sakes, became poor, that we through his poverty might be made rich...
Page 305 - Let her continue till death forgiving all injuries, performing harsh duties, avoiding every sensual pleasure, and cheerfully practising the incomparable rules of virtue, which have been followed by such women, as were devoted to one only husband.
Page 269 - We consider the voluntary enslaving of one part of the human race by another as a gross violation of the most precious and sacred rights of human nature...
Page 269 - Slavery creates a paradox in the moral system — it exhibits rational, accountable, and immortal beings in such circumstances as scarcely to leave them the power of moral action. It exhibits them as dependent on the will of others, whether they shall receive religious instruction ; whether they shall know and worship the true God ; whether they shall enjoy the ordinances of the gospel ; whether they shall perform the duties and cherish the endearments of husbands and wives, parents and children...
Page 275 - Remember the former things of old: For I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times the things that are not yet done, Saying, My counsel shall stand, And I will do all my pleasure...
Page 271 - As our country has inflicted a most grievous injury on the unhappy Africans, by bringing them into slavery, we cannot indeed urge that we should add a second injury to the first, by emancipating them in such manner as that they will be likely to destroy themselves or others.
Page 273 - We enjoin it on all church Sessions and Presbyteries under the care of this Assembly, to discountenance, and, as far as possible, to prevent all cruelty of whatever kind in the treatment of slaves ; especially the cruelty of separating husband and wife, parents and children, and that which consists in selling slaves to those who will either themselves deprive these unhappy people of the blessings of the gospel, or who will transport them to places where the gospel is not proclaimed, or where it is...
Page 23 - I cannot refrain from adding that the collection of tracts, which we call, from their excellence, the Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected, within the same compass, from all other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom.