Dr. Livingstone' Cambridge Lectures: Together with a Prefatory Letter by Prof. Sedgwick |
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... English energy and English spirit . I cannot express to you in adequate language the sense which I entertain of the kindness which I have received since my return to this country , but I can assure you that I shall ever retain a ...
... English energy and English spirit . I cannot express to you in adequate language the sense which I entertain of the kindness which I have received since my return to this country , but I can assure you that I shall ever retain a ...
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... English ship . We shall see a providence in this return , in the respect that an inde- pendent exploring expedition up the Congo under the captain's command will probably be the important consequence3 . The interesting descriptions ...
... English ship . We shall see a providence in this return , in the respect that an inde- pendent exploring expedition up the Congo under the captain's command will probably be the important consequence3 . The interesting descriptions ...
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... English , and neutral in the war . One interesting circum- stance occurred to Captain Bedingfeld , that of meeting with a number of wandering Zoolus , men , women and children , who had seen Mr Moffat when on a visit to Mosilikatse ...
... English , and neutral in the war . One interesting circum- stance occurred to Captain Bedingfeld , that of meeting with a number of wandering Zoolus , men , women and children , who had seen Mr Moffat when on a visit to Mosilikatse ...
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... English women ? If Africa have its quacks , we too have a plentiful crop from the same vile seed . If we have no rain - doctors ( and the fickle ele- ments would spoil their practice were they here ) , we have our rain - prophets , and ...
... English women ? If Africa have its quacks , we too have a plentiful crop from the same vile seed . If we have no rain - doctors ( and the fickle ele- ments would spoil their practice were they here ) , we have our rain - prophets , and ...
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... English women ? If Africa have its quacks , we too have a plentiful crop from the same vile seed . If we have no rain - doctors ( and the fickle ele- ments would spoil their practice were they here ) , we have our rain - prophets , and ...
... English women ? If Africa have its quacks , we too have a plentiful crop from the same vile seed . If we have no rain - doctors ( and the fickle ele- ments would spoil their practice were they here ) , we have our rain - prophets , and ...
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Page 244 - And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Page 320 - After this I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands ; And cried with a loud voice ; saying; Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
Page 312 - And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand.
Page 218 - For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Page 298 - Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
Page 271 - And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
Page 212 - While the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.
Page 341 - Waft, waft, ye winds, his story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole ; Till o'er our ransomed nature The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.