Travels in South-eastern Asia, Embracing Hindustan, Malaya, Siam, and China: With Notices of Numerous Missionary Stations, and a Full Account of the Burman Empire : with Dissertations, Tables, Etc, Band 1Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1839 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abundant Akyab Arracan bamboo Bay of Bengal bazar beautiful Bengal boats Boodh Boodhism brick British Burman called cheroot chiefly Chinese Chittagong Christian church color common diameter districts eight English exported Farther India feet high fifty foreigners forty four fruit Gaudama gilded give grows hundred images inches India inhabitants Irrawaddy islands Judson jungle Karens kind king Kyouk Phyoo kyoungs labor language large tree leaves less Martaban Maulmain Mergui miles mission missionary months mountains native assistants never numerous pagoda passed Pegu persons petrifactions population preach present priests principal Prome provinces quantity rains Rangoon received region religion resembles rice river round rupees sapan wood scarcely season seeds seems seen Shyans Siam sometimes species Tavoy teak Tenasserim thing thousand ticals timber tion town tracts twelve Umerapoora various villages visited whole wild wood worship zayats
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Seite 184 - Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.
Seite 78 - For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.
Seite 212 - In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left : and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
Seite 16 - Hail, Source of Being ! Universal Soul Of Heaven and Earth ! Essential Presence, hail ! To Thee I bend the knee ; to Thee my thoughts Continual climb ; who, with a master-hand, Hast the great whole into perfection touch'd.
Seite 20 - THOU art, O God ! the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see ; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from thee. Where'er we turn thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are thine.
Seite 2 - In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. STEREOTYPED AT THE BOSTON TYPE AND STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY. PREFACE. THE only aim of the following pages is utility.
Seite 173 - Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest.
Seite 271 - It has no mythology of obscene and ferocious deities ; no sanguinary or impure observances ; no s'elf-inflicted tortures ; no tyrannizing priesthood ; no confounding of right and wrong, by making certain iniquities laudable in worship. In its moral code, its descriptions of the purity and peace of the first ages, of the shortening of man's life because of his sins, &c., it seems to have followed genuine traditions. In almost every respect it seems to be the best religion which man has ever invented.
Seite 88 - the truth of God into a lie " ! All this to " worship and serve the creature more than the Creator, who is God over all and blessed...
Seite 189 - Though they furnish, however, no accommodations but a shelter, the traveller procures at the bazar all he finds necessary, or receives, with the utmost promptitude, a full supply from the families around. A missionary may travel from one end of the country to the other, and receive, wherever he stops, all that the family can offer.