A Residence of Eight Years in Persia, Among the Nestorian Christians: With Notices of the MuhammedansAllen, Morrill & Wardell, 1843 - 512 páginas |
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... directions . It soon became powerful , especially in Persia ; and in all its vicissitudes , it has remained permanent from that day to this , in some of the regions now occupied by the Nesto- rian Christians . With the Nestorians ...
... directions . It soon became powerful , especially in Persia ; and in all its vicissitudes , it has remained permanent from that day to this , in some of the regions now occupied by the Nesto- rian Christians . With the Nestorians ...
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... direction a little to the west of north and east of south . Its waters are very salt , perhaps as much so as the waters of the Dead Sea . No fish are found in it but fowl , particularly the duck and flam- ingo , t frequent it in great ...
... direction a little to the west of north and east of south . Its waters are very salt , perhaps as much so as the waters of the Dead Sea . No fish are found in it but fowl , particularly the duck and flam- ingo , t frequent it in great ...
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... direction ; that it is rather an absolute sovereign , whom we may , indeed , approach and con- ciliate , but whom we try in vain to coërce . I may here quote one or two brief remarks from Prof. Robinson's letter , from which the ...
... direction ; that it is rather an absolute sovereign , whom we may , indeed , approach and con- ciliate , but whom we try in vain to coërce . I may here quote one or two brief remarks from Prof. Robinson's letter , from which the ...
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... direction you are to labor ; which you see developed in the Ceylon mission and beginning to show itself in the Sandwich Islands . With the blessing of hea- ven , the church of Antioch will be reëdified chiefly by means of her own sons ...
... direction you are to labor ; which you see developed in the Ceylon mission and beginning to show itself in the Sandwich Islands . With the blessing of hea- ven , the church of Antioch will be reëdified chiefly by means of her own sons ...
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... direction and hurried us on at the rapid rate of nine miles an hour . Our cabin was in such commotion , that we were obliged to tie our books upon the table . I was engaged half the afternoon in making tape loops for the purpose . At ...
... direction and hurried us on at the rapid rate of nine miles an hour . Our cabin was in such commotion , that we were obliged to tie our books upon the table . I was engaged half the afternoon in making tape loops for the purpose . At ...
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Página 168 - And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
Página 457 - The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Página 102 - Their throat is an open sepulchre ; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: 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.
Página 367 - And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones, a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.
Página 352 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days : which are a shadow of things to come ; but the body is of Christ.
Página 342 - Thou hast spread thy wing, and sheltered us from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.
Página 268 - But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that, when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.
Página 501 - For the strength of the hills we bless thee, Our God, our fathers...
Página 164 - Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven; but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Página 346 - Verily I say unto you ; There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come eternal life.