Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern AfricaR. Carter, 1850 - 406 pages |
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... obtaining consent - Great wisdom required— Suspicions of the natives - Difficulty of obtaining confidence - A commando defeated - Encouraging tokens - An untoward circum- stance - Mr . Campbell's departure - The loaf stolen - The Author ...
... obtaining consent - Great wisdom required— Suspicions of the natives - Difficulty of obtaining confidence - A commando defeated - Encouraging tokens - An untoward circum- stance - Mr . Campbell's departure - The loaf stolen - The Author ...
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... obtained these weapons , which they have not yet learned to manufacture . The Bushmen are the most remarkable portion of the Hottentot nation . Various opinions have been offered on the origin and state of the Hottentots , among which ...
... obtained these weapons , which they have not yet learned to manufacture . The Bushmen are the most remarkable portion of the Hottentot nation . Various opinions have been offered on the origin and state of the Hottentots , among which ...
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... obtained on the subject of their language - which has , in addition to the klick of the Hottentot , a croaking in the throat , —that they never under- stood each other without interpreters . Another fact is , that the Bushmen are to be ...
... obtained on the subject of their language - which has , in addition to the klick of the Hottentot , a croaking in the throat , —that they never under- stood each other without interpreters . Another fact is , that the Bushmen are to be ...
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... obtain . The flesh they may eat ; but the skins are conveyed to the towns , for which they obtain a small piece of tobacco , or an old spear or knife . Indeed , all the valuable skins of the larger animals , which they sometimes procure ...
... obtain . The flesh they may eat ; but the skins are conveyed to the towns , for which they obtain a small piece of tobacco , or an old spear or knife . Indeed , all the valuable skins of the larger animals , which they sometimes procure ...
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... and Edinburgh . He had obtained plaudits for his remarkable progress in literature , in philosophy , divinity , physic , and the military art . He was not only a profound student in ancient e 1 to lected , ds and felled anking be.
... and Edinburgh . He had obtained plaudits for his remarkable progress in literature , in philosophy , divinity , physic , and the military art . He was not only a profound student in ancient e 1 to lected , ds and felled anking be.
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Page 131 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand : for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Page 371 - 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 183 - Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
Page 31 - 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 95 - A region of drought, where no river glides, Nor rippling brook with osiered sides ; Where sedgy pool, nor bubbling fount, Nor tree, nor cloud, nor misty mount, Appears to refresh the aching eye : But the barren earth and the burning sky, And the blank horizon, round and round, Spread — void of living sight or sound.
Page 78 - In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
Page 102 - 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 19 - ... 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.
Page 203 - But in the whole previous and subsequent context the apostle is speaking of that ' preaching of the cross ' which was ' to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness...
Page 93 - Mid the desert brown and wide. Close beside the sedgy brim Couchant lurks the lion grim ; Watching till the close of day Brings the death-devoted prey. Heedless at the ambushed brink The tall giraffe stoops down to drink. Upon him straight the savage springs With cruel joy. The desert rings With clanging sound of desperate strife — The prey is strong and he strives for life.