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Page 115
... kraal . This was a long journey across the continent , and a great part of it was over deep sand ; but the season encouraged him , being June , which is the middle month in a South African winter , consequently , the coolest season in ...
... kraal . This was a long journey across the continent , and a great part of it was over deep sand ; but the season encouraged him , being June , which is the middle month in a South African winter , consequently , the coolest season in ...
Page 132
... kraals of the Hottentots , like circles of bee - hives , in sunny and sheltered spots on the margins of streams ; or occasionally the lone- ly tents of the Bushmen , roving from place to place , wheresoev- er they could find game and ...
... kraals of the Hottentots , like circles of bee - hives , in sunny and sheltered spots on the margins of streams ; or occasionally the lone- ly tents of the Bushmen , roving from place to place , wheresoev- er they could find game and ...
Page 133
... kraal assembled to dance and sing an ancient strain , of which this was the burden : -O Sista ! thou father over our heads ! give us showers , that our fruit may ripen , and that we may have plenty of food : send us a good year , that ...
... kraal assembled to dance and sing an ancient strain , of which this was the burden : -O Sista ! thou father over our heads ! give us showers , that our fruit may ripen , and that we may have plenty of food : send us a good year , that ...
Page 134
... kraal , and laid it at their feet , pre- senting his back to be fondled , while his spots darkened , and his skin glistened , as their infants patted his sides , or rolled with him on the grass . It was the children , in fact , that led ...
... kraal , and laid it at their feet , pre- senting his back to be fondled , while his spots darkened , and his skin glistened , as their infants patted his sides , or rolled with him on the grass . It was the children , in fact , that led ...
Page 169
... kraal at a small distance from Cape Town . The discovery was no sooner made than the offender was seized by his ... kraals , or villages , like members of the same family , having their cat- tle and chief property as a sort of common ...
... kraal at a small distance from Cape Town . The discovery was no sooner made than the offender was seized by his ... kraals , or villages , like members of the same family , having their cat- tle and chief property as a sort of common ...
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Page 136 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
Page 348 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath?
Page 62 - The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Shar'on, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.
Page 269 - Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms, And for the testimony of truth hast borne Universal reproach, far worse to bear Than violence ; for this was all thy care — To stand approved in sight of God, though worlds Judged thee perverse.
Page 285 - We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed...
Page 347 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
Page 147 - I am the Resurrection, and the Life : he that believeth on Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live : and whosoever liveth and believeth in
Page 133 - Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave them rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladness.
Page 305 - That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives be requested, to use their best exertions to procure the passage of a law...
Page 306 - That our Senators and Representatives in Congress be, and they are hereby, requested...