Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern AfricaR. Carter, 1850 - 406 pages |
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... scarcely one exception , might have had the tri - coloured flag waving on her bosom , bearing the ensigns of the mystery of Babylon , the crescent of the false prophet , and the emblems of pagan darkness , from the shores of the ...
... scarcely one exception , might have had the tri - coloured flag waving on her bosom , bearing the ensigns of the mystery of Babylon , the crescent of the false prophet , and the emblems of pagan darkness , from the shores of the ...
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... scarcely any difficulty . All use the same weapons , the quiver , bow , and poisoned arrows , of which the tribes beyond are ignorant , except such as border on them , like the Batlapis , who say they adopted that new mode of warfare in ...
... scarcely any difficulty . All use the same weapons , the quiver , bow , and poisoned arrows , of which the tribes beyond are ignorant , except such as border on them , like the Batlapis , who say they adopted that new mode of warfare in ...
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... scarcely a family is to be seen ! It is impossible to look over these now uninhabited plains and mountain - glens without feeling the deepest melancholy , while the winds moaning in the vale seem to echo back the sound , " Where are ...
... scarcely a family is to be seen ! It is impossible to look over these now uninhabited plains and mountain - glens without feeling the deepest melancholy , while the winds moaning in the vale seem to echo back the sound , " Where are ...
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... scarcely any possibility of making progress among a people so proscribed by govern- ment , and at the mercy of their white neighbours ,, on whom they could not look without indignation , as any other human beings would have done in ...
... scarcely any possibility of making progress among a people so proscribed by govern- ment , and at the mercy of their white neighbours ,, on whom they could not look without indignation , as any other human beings would have done in ...
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... scarcely dublejees ( pence ) sufficient to carry him back to the colony . ' " It does not appear that any one of this party died a natural death . ' Faber , ' said my informant , who was well acquainted with all the cir- cumstances ...
... scarcely dublejees ( pence ) sufficient to carry him back to the colony . ' " It does not appear that any one of this party died a natural death . ' Faber , ' said my informant , who was well acquainted with all the cir- cumstances ...
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Africaner Africaner's animal appeared arrived attack Barolongs Batlapis Batlaros Bauangketsi Bechuanas Berend bushes Bushmen called Cape Town cattle character chief Christian clouds colony Corannas course dark desert distance Divine Dutch language enemy eyes father fearful feel fire frequently giraffe Gospel Graaff Reinet Griqua Town ground Hamilton hand hear heard heart heathen heavens hills horses Hottentots human hyenas inhabitants journey Kafirs killed king Kuruman River labours language leaving lion Lithako living London Missionary Society look Mahura Makaba Mantatees miles mind mission missionary Morimo morning Mothibi mountains Namaqua-land Namaquas natives neighbouring never night object obtain Orange River oxen party passed Philippolis plain present prey rain rain-maker reached reason remarked replied savage scarcely seen seized sent sionary soon soul spear spot station thing tion traveller tribes village wagon warriors Waterboer women Zak River
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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.