British India in Its Relation to the Decline of Hindooism, and the Progress of ChristianityJ. Snow, 1839 - 506 pages |
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Page 60
... standing not less than five or six feet from him . " Well ! sir , " said he , " you are " O yes , " I replied , and held it " Now , " he said , " open your sure you have it ? " with a firmer grasp . hand . " I did so , very cautiously ...
... standing not less than five or six feet from him . " Well ! sir , " said he , " you are " O yes , " I replied , and held it " Now , " he said , " open your sure you have it ? " with a firmer grasp . hand . " I did so , very cautiously ...
Page 62
... stand in the porch of their temples , call upon the priests and devotees to do their worst , and show how little they regarded their power and their enchantments . Like the children of Israel while they were in Egypt , Pharaoh and HUMAN ...
... stand in the porch of their temples , call upon the priests and devotees to do their worst , and show how little they regarded their power and their enchantments . Like the children of Israel while they were in Egypt , Pharaoh and HUMAN ...
Page 63
... stand upon the shores of the Red Sea , sing , in triumph , the new song of Moses and the Lamb , and render praise and glory to the God of their salvation . The human sacrifices which Hindooism demands are frightful and appalling ...
... stand upon the shores of the Red Sea , sing , in triumph , the new song of Moses and the Lamb , and render praise and glory to the God of their salvation . The human sacrifices which Hindooism demands are frightful and appalling ...
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... stands upon the body of her husband , who holds a scimitar in her right hand , and a head just severed from its body in her left , whose hair is dis- hevelled , whose eyes are like balls of fire , who wears , as a garland , a necklace ...
... stands upon the body of her husband , who holds a scimitar in her right hand , and a head just severed from its body in her left , whose hair is dis- hevelled , whose eyes are like balls of fire , who wears , as a garland , a necklace ...
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... ; he has been seen standing at the shrine of Mahin Kallee , demanding his human sacrifices , and practising on the heca- tombs the most barbarous cruelty . But as though HINDOOISM . 75 these victims were not numerous enough ,
... ; he has been seen standing at the shrine of Mahin Kallee , demanding his human sacrifices , and practising on the heca- tombs the most barbarous cruelty . But as though HINDOOISM . 75 these victims were not numerous enough ,
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Page 512 - Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up ? Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music...
Page 135 - We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; we are perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live, are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
Page 287 - Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel ; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Page 36 - The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his Anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Page 575 - Walk about Zion, and go round about her : Tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, Consider her palaces ; That ye may tell it to the generation following : For this God is our God for ever and ever : He will be our guide even unto death.
Page 23 - Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Page 439 - But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger! I will arise and go to my father...
Page 582 - If obedience to the will of God be necessary to happiness, and knowledge of his will be necessary to obedience, I know not how he that withholds this knowledge, or delays it, can be said to love his neighbour as himself.
Page 582 - Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity and as no Man is good but as he wishes the good of others no man can be good in the highest degree who wishes not to others the largest measure of the greatest good.
Page 409 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness ; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness : and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn ; they shout for joy, they also sing.