Dr. Livingstone' Cambridge Lectures: Together with a Prefatory Letter by Prof. Sedgwick |
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... truth , the results of whose investigations it is for the future to experience , chronicle and digest . If the members of these several expeditions ever return to this country ( God grant that they may ) the editor of this book as well ...
... truth , the results of whose investigations it is for the future to experience , chronicle and digest . If the members of these several expeditions ever return to this country ( God grant that they may ) the editor of this book as well ...
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... truth . You now tell me that , with the exception of a few pages , your work is all in type ; and you again claim my promise . I ought to be ashamed of my long delay were I not able to reply , that , after the duties of the Michaelmas ...
... truth . You now tell me that , with the exception of a few pages , your work is all in type ; and you again claim my promise . I ought to be ashamed of my long delay were I not able to reply , that , after the duties of the Michaelmas ...
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... truth - and to encourage the Missionary of the Gospel in carrying the message of peace to poor benighted Africa ; -in all such hopes you have the heartfelt sympathy of many a fellow - Christian who will wish God speed to your little ...
... truth - and to encourage the Missionary of the Gospel in carrying the message of peace to poor benighted Africa ; -in all such hopes you have the heartfelt sympathy of many a fellow - Christian who will wish God speed to your little ...
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... truth and the good of his fellow - creatures in Africa , in years to come , he more than once exclaimed in earnest truth , that " he had made no sacrifice " -that he had but done a duty to which he had been called by outward ...
... truth and the good of his fellow - creatures in Africa , in years to come , he more than once exclaimed in earnest truth , that " he had made no sacrifice " -that he had but done a duty to which he had been called by outward ...
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... truth . With the Natives who had reached the years of manhood he made but slow progress . Some of their Chiefs were , however , won over to the truth . But while the greater number heard him with a kind of torpid apathy , they learnt to ...
... truth . With the Natives who had reached the years of manhood he made but slow progress . Some of their Chiefs were , however , won over to the truth . But while the greater number heard him with a kind of torpid apathy , they learnt to ...
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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.