Life of Jehudi Ashmun, Late Colonial Agent in Liberia: With an Appendix, Containing Extracts from His Journal and Other Writings : with a Brief Sketch of the Life of the Rev. Lott Cary |
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... Christian Religion - first , within the Colony itself , and subsequently , by means of the Colony among the ' contiguous tribes . Of these objects , the last is so in- ' volved in the first , that to this alone 62 . LIFE OF ASHMUN .
... Christian Religion - first , within the Colony itself , and subsequently , by means of the Colony among the ' contiguous tribes . Of these objects , the last is so in- ' volved in the first , that to this alone 62 . LIFE OF ASHMUN .
Page 125
... to have the letter . The letter * For his age and influence , regarded as the patriarch of the tribes in the immediate neighbourhood of the Colony . was delivered and interpreted to the King , and seemed LIFE OF ASHMUN . 125.
... to have the letter . The letter * For his age and influence , regarded as the patriarch of the tribes in the immediate neighbourhood of the Colony . was delivered and interpreted to the King , and seemed LIFE OF ASHMUN . 125.
Page 126
... tribes inhabited the country , and it would be unjust and ungenerous to adopt an opinion unfavourable to all , from the misconduct of one or two Kings ; that he was old , and it was time that his character as a King * Written sometimes ...
... tribes inhabited the country , and it would be unjust and ungenerous to adopt an opinion unfavourable to all , from the misconduct of one or two Kings ; that he was old , and it was time that his character as a King * Written sometimes ...
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... tribes around us are combined in war ' against us . Their principal object is plunder . We are ' surrounded only with a slight barricade , and can only raise ' a force of thirty men . Have not time , limits , nor the means ' to erect an ...
... tribes around us are combined in war ' against us . Their principal object is plunder . We are ' surrounded only with a slight barricade , and can only raise ' a force of thirty men . Have not time , limits , nor the means ' to erect an ...
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... tribe on that part of the coast , than they generously offered all the aid in their power . By the influence of Captain Laing , the Chiefs were bound to a truce , and to refer all matters of difference between them and the Colony , to ...
... tribe on that part of the coast , than they generously offered all the aid in their power . By the influence of Captain Laing , the Chiefs were bound to a truce , and to refer all matters of difference between them and the Colony , to ...
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Page 282 - Henceforth I learn, that to obey is best, And love, with fear, the only God ; to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...
Page 297 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 250 - Manners are what vex or sooth, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole form and colour to our lives. According to their quality, they aid morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them.
Page 5 - The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Page 395 - ... they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword : they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented ; (of whom the world was not worthy :) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
Page 243 - If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments ; If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments ; Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
Page 212 - Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts : for the Coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
Page 106 - If it was possible for men, who exercise their reason, to believe, that the Divine Author of our existence intended a part of the human race to hold an absolute property in, and an unbounded power over others, marked out by his infinite goodness and wisdom, as the objects of a legal domination never rightfully resistible, however severe and oppressive...
Page 107 - But a reverence for our great Creator, principles of humanity, and the dictates of common sense, must convince all those who reflect upon the subject, that government was instituted to promote the welfare of mankind, and ought to be administered for the attainment of that end.
Page 246 - ... design which he apprehended to be prejudicial to the interests of his country. This innoxious and ineffectual character, that seems formed upon a plan of apology and disculpation, falls miserably short of the mark of public duty. That duty demands and requires, that what is right should not only be made known, but made prevalent; that what is evil should not only be detected, but v V