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Page 101
... mass , and then with certain dexterous maneuvers , which a Hawaiian only knows , bring the poi - laden finger to a junction with the lips , with a smack of hearty satisfaction , such as no gourmand or toper could equal after a dram of ...
... mass , and then with certain dexterous maneuvers , which a Hawaiian only knows , bring the poi - laden finger to a junction with the lips , with a smack of hearty satisfaction , such as no gourmand or toper could equal after a dram of ...
Page 106
... mass . There are crystals of olivine , obsidian , and augite often to be met with in the lava , and quartz has been found in the path of mountain torrents . Salt is obtained in large quantities from a salt lake in the vicinity of ...
... mass . There are crystals of olivine , obsidian , and augite often to be met with in the lava , and quartz has been found in the path of mountain torrents . Salt is obtained in large quantities from a salt lake in the vicinity of ...
Page 111
... mass found a level , that you can not scale them without the most painful labor . The pedestrian and canoe traveler on Hawaii , in his way to the most stupendous and awful volcano in the known world , has the best opportunity for observ ...
... mass found a level , that you can not scale them without the most painful labor . The pedestrian and canoe traveler on Hawaii , in his way to the most stupendous and awful volcano in the known world , has the best opportunity for observ ...
Page 135
... mass . But as to outward helps in the cultivation of piety and a holy life , there are by no means so many on missionary ground as at home . If a man has not obtained a devout mind and habits of holy living before he enters upon the ...
... mass . But as to outward helps in the cultivation of piety and a holy life , there are by no means so many on missionary ground as at home . If a man has not obtained a devout mind and habits of holy living before he enters upon the ...
Page 165
... masses were broken off , which we would have to surmount . Now and then we could see holes in the face of the rock , where pent - up gases had burst out after the great mass was cooled , and left a space all around like a honeycomb ...
... masses were broken off , which we would have to surmount . Now and then we could see holes in the face of the rock , where pent - up gases had burst out after the great mass was cooled , and left a space all around like a honeycomb ...
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albatross American beautiful bird blessed boys burning calabash caldron called canoe Cape Cape Horn captain chiefs Christian Church Coan coral crater death deep duty earth earthquake English eruption families fear feel fiery fire foreigners formed French friends ground Hawaii Hawaiian heart heat heathen hills Hilo Honolulu human hundred feet isles Kahoolawe Kailua kalo Kamehameha Kamehameha III kapa Kapiolani Kauai Kilauea king labor Lahaina land lava living look mass miles mind mission missionaries morning mountain nation natives nature never night Niihau Oahu ocean once Pacific pastor Pele Polynesia port prayer precipice Puna race rocks Sabbath sand Sandwich Islands seen shore side Society Islands sometimes soul stone sulphur tabus things thousand tion traveler trees vast vessels volcano waiian Wailuku Waiohinu waves whale ships whole wife wind
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Page 205 - Wisdom and spirit of the universe ! Thou soul that art the eternity of thought, That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul...
Page 204 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 345 - Eternal HOPE ! when yonder spheres sublime Pealed their first notes to sound the march of Time, Thy joyous youth began — but not to fade. — When all the sister planets have decayed ; When...
Page 228 - The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast: Theirs buxom health, of rosy hue, Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer, of vigor born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light That fly the approach of morn.
Page 260 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat ? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Page 224 - Numbers of all diseased ; all maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony, all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums.
Page 160 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Page 109 - There with its waving blade of green. The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush, like a banner bathed in slaughter...
Page 37 - At length did cross an Albatross: Thorough the fog it came : As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God's name. It ate the food it ne'er had eat, And round and round it flew. The ice did split with a thunder-fit; The helmsman steered us through! And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners