Continental India: Travelling Sketches and Historical Recollections [1822-1835] Illustrating the Antiquity, Religion and Manners of the Hindoos, the Extent of British Conquests, and the Progress of Missionary Operations, 2. köideT. Ward & Company, 1840 |
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Page 108
... heathen , and such of the people as chose to adhere to them . There were 4 missionary families , 104 native teachers , 54 schoolmasters , 50 children in the seminaries , and 17 adult students , for whom support to the amount of 2,500l ...
... heathen , and such of the people as chose to adhere to them . There were 4 missionary families , 104 native teachers , 54 schoolmasters , 50 children in the seminaries , and 17 adult students , for whom support to the amount of 2,500l ...
Page 109
... heathen . Most affecting was the sight , when , one after another , the catechists who were out in the district , and the people , came breathless to the house , to try if , by any means , they might once more behold the face of their ...
... heathen . Most affecting was the sight , when , one after another , the catechists who were out in the district , and the people , came breathless to the house , to try if , by any means , they might once more behold the face of their ...
Page 113
... heathen join in this veneration , and gifts are still here offered on the reputed anniversary of his mar- tyrdom . We need not remark how insignificant is the matter of debate , and how alien from the spirit of Christianity , is such ...
... heathen join in this veneration , and gifts are still here offered on the reputed anniversary of his mar- tyrdom . We need not remark how insignificant is the matter of debate , and how alien from the spirit of Christianity , is such ...
Page 119
... heathen princes . They partially recovered their religious liberty , when the courage and industry of the Dutch shook the Portuguese empire . The Syrians asserted , with vigour and effect , the religion of their fathers . The Jesuit ...
... heathen princes . They partially recovered their religious liberty , when the courage and industry of the Dutch shook the Portuguese empire . The Syrians asserted , with vigour and effect , the religion of their fathers . The Jesuit ...
Page 121
... heathen gods which may be in the vicinity . The buildings have been compared to some old parish churches in England , the style of which is of Saracenic origin , with buttresses supporting the walls the beams of the roof , where exposed ...
... heathen gods which may be in the vicinity . The buildings have been compared to some old parish churches in England , the style of which is of Saracenic origin , with buttresses supporting the walls the beams of the roof , where exposed ...
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