Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern AfricaR. Carter, 1845 - 406 pages |
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... was , " If I knew that I should save my own life by leaving them , I should not fear to offer that life for the least child amongst them . " In this , though storm . VANDERKEMP'S CHARACTER . 39 wanting in prudence , he displayed.
... was , " If I knew that I should save my own life by leaving them , I should not fear to offer that life for the least child amongst them . " In this , though storm . VANDERKEMP'S CHARACTER . 39 wanting in prudence , he displayed.
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... fear of his approach , fled with my people , our wives and our babes , to the mountain glen , or to the wilder ness , and spent nights among beasts of prey , rather than gaze on the eyes of this lion , or hear his roar . ' After the ...
... fear of his approach , fled with my people , our wives and our babes , to the mountain glen , or to the wilder ness , and spent nights among beasts of prey , rather than gaze on the eyes of this lion , or hear his roar . ' After the ...
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... fear , and reckless of danger , could not help acknowledging being most powerfully struck with his escape from the ball of his antag- onist , and would say to me when I referred to the fact , " Mynheer knows how to use the only hammer ...
... fear , and reckless of danger , could not help acknowledging being most powerfully struck with his escape from the ball of his antag- onist , and would say to me when I referred to the fact , " Mynheer knows how to use the only hammer ...
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... tain , where we had to go twice a day for our nauseous but grateful beverage . At last , when we were beginning to fear that the men had either perished or wandered , Mr. Bartlett ARRIVAL AT PELLA . 77 4 arrived on horseback ,
... tain , where we had to go twice a day for our nauseous but grateful beverage . At last , when we were beginning to fear that the men had either perished or wandered , Mr. Bartlett ARRIVAL AT PELLA . 77 4 arrived on horseback ,
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... fear not ; we are friends , and will do you no harm . " I put several questions to her , but she appeared either speechless , or afraid to open her lips . I again repeated , " Pray , mother , who are you , and how do you come to be in ...
... fear not ; we are friends , and will do you no harm . " I put several questions to her , but she appeared either speechless , or afraid to open her lips . I again repeated , " Pray , mother , who are you , and how do you come to be in ...
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Africaner animal appeared arrived attack attendants Barolongs Basutos Batlapis Bauangketsi Bechuanas Berend brought Bushmen called Cape Town cattle character chief Christian clouds colony commenced Corannas course dark desert distance Divine Dutch language enemy eyes father fear feel fire fled frequently Gospel Graaff Reinet Griqua Town ground Hamilton hand hear heard heart heathen heavens hills horses Hottentots human hyenas inhabitants journey Kafirs killed king Kuruman labours language leaving lion Lithako live London Missionary Society look Makaba Mantatees Matabele miles mind mission missionary Morimo morning Moselekatse Mothibi mountains Namaqua-land Namaquas nation natives neighbouring never night object obtain Orange River oxen party Philippolis plain present rain rain-maker reached reason remarked replied savage scarcely seen seized sent sionary soon soul spear spot station thing tion traveller tribes Vanderkemp village wagon warriors Waterboer women Zak River
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Page 169 - Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 359 - Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone...
Page 216 - However true it may have been, or still may be, that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives, it is a libel upon the curiosity of mankind to attribute this ignorance to indifference.
Page 388 - If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind...
Page 23 - These things hast thou done, and I kept silence ; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself : But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes." Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Page 304 - Call upon me in the time of trouble, and I will deliver thee.
Page 22 - There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains ; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon : and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
Page 70 - In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
Page 96 - God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings ; by pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left...
Page 9 - ... advanced, romping and playing together, the children of nature, through the live-long day, become habituated to a language of their own. The more voluble condescend to the less precocious, and thus, from this infant Babel, proceeds a dialect composed of a host of mongrel words and phrases, joined together without rule, and in the course of a generation the entire character of the language is changed.