Letters on the Moral and Religious State of South America: Written During a Residence of Nearly Seven Years in Buenos Aires, Chile, Peru, and ColombiaJ. Nisbet, 1827 - 296 pages |
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Page 186 - And I John saw these things, and heard them; and when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things. Then saith he unto me ; See thou do it not ; for I am thy fellow-servant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book; worship God.
Page 196 - Through every period of my life Thy goodness I'll pursue ; And after death, in distant worlds, The glorious theme renew.
Page 63 - The Roman Catholic Apostolic Religion is the religion of the state, and the exercise of every other is excluded.' " We are not to be surprised that the matter has ended in this manner ; perhaps we should rather wonder that there was any one of the members of the Congress disposed to speak, or even to tbink on the side of toleration.
Page 28 - The object of this institution is to extend, in every direction throughout Chili, the benefits of education ; to promote the instruction of all classes, but especially of the poor...
Page 75 - lest they come into this place of torment," which was — "they have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them; and if they hear not Moses and the prophets neither would they be persuaded though one rose from the dead.
Page 157 - How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire : for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
Page 175 - Testaments, it occurred to me that the best thing I could do would be to...
Page 289 - I have no hesitation in sayiny that the public voice is decidedly in farour of UNIVERSAL EDUCATION. I never heard even once, what is still to be heard elsewhere, ' that the poor should not be taught.' The very opposite feeling most undoubtedly exists, and prevails among the clergy and the laity, the governors and the governed.
Page 137 - Ghost ; whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Page 208 - Testament, and bought itHe showed it to one of the rest, and recommended it, whilst I did not fail to put in a word to the same effect, pointing out the advantages of the Scriptures to all, and how more immediately it concerned them, as ministers of religion, to possess it, and to recommend it to others. Yes...