Dr. Livingstone' Cambridge Lectures: Together with a Prefatory Letter by Prof. Sedgwick |
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... believe will be most useful to me . She is familiar with the languages of South Africa , she is able to work , she is willing to endure , and she well knows that in that country one must put one's hand to everything . In the country to ...
... believe will be most useful to me . She is familiar with the languages of South Africa , she is able to work , she is willing to endure , and she well knows that in that country one must put one's hand to everything . In the country to ...
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... believe that I am truly interpreting the sentiments of the University the day that they met Dr Livingstone in the Senate - House . All who that day assembled to meet him , and listen to his address , had heard something of his early ...
... believe that I am truly interpreting the sentiments of the University the day that they met Dr Livingstone in the Senate - House . All who that day assembled to meet him , and listen to his address , had heard something of his early ...
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... believe the tale , and even good men have listened to it ) that when sunk below a certain level , of which they make themselves the judges , no power under heaven can reclaim the Savage - that he is doomed to death by the God who ...
... believe the tale , and even good men have listened to it ) that when sunk below a certain level , of which they make themselves the judges , no power under heaven can reclaim the Savage - that he is doomed to death by the God who ...
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... believe that the glorious promises of the Gospel have no application to one quarter of the world , and that the " Sun of righteousness " is never meant to shine on the dark portions of benighted Africa . Before I go on , let me quote a ...
... believe that the glorious promises of the Gospel have no application to one quarter of the world , and that the " Sun of righteousness " is never meant to shine on the dark portions of benighted Africa . Before I go on , let me quote a ...
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... believe the lessons of a Saviour common to all the sons of men ? The expedition down the Zambesi had no other base to rest upon than the influence gained by Livingstone over the native Chiefs . He had not a scrap of property of his own ...
... believe the lessons of a Saviour common to all the sons of men ? The expedition down the Zambesi had no other base to rest upon than the influence gained by Livingstone over the native Chiefs . He had not a scrap of property of his own ...
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abundance ancient Angola animals Bakalahari Bakwains Balonda banks Barotse Barotse valley Bechuana Boers Bushmen Caffre Cambridge canoes Cape Town Captain Bedingfeld Central Africa central South Africa chief Christian civilization coast colour continent Dr Living Dr Livingstone east eastern England English especially Europeans expedition explorations feet fever friends give God's Gospel heart heathen hence hippopotamus honour hope human inhabitants interior journey Kafirs Kalahari desert kind Kuruman labours Lake Ngami land language letter Linyanti Loanda Makololo Matebele miles Mission missionary Moffat moral natives nature negro never oxen party poor African Portuguese Quango R. I. Murchison race rain reached regions remarkable ridges river Santura savage Sebituane Sechele seen Sekeletu Sekwebu sent shew Shire Sichuana slave-dealers slave-trade slaves soul South Africa spirit tell Teté tion traveller tribes truth tusks western words Zambesi
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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.