A Memoir of Richard Williams : Surgeon: Catechist to the Patagonian Missionary Society in Tierra Del FuegoJames Nisbet, 1854 - 255 pagine |
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... strong determination amounted to obstinacy . He gave no indication of piety ; but in the transparency and truthfulness of his character might be perceived the germ of future excellence . For if little can be hoped from a childhood where ...
... strong determination amounted to obstinacy . He gave no indication of piety ; but in the transparency and truthfulness of his character might be perceived the germ of future excellence . For if little can be hoped from a childhood where ...
Pagina 5
... strong repugnance to medical studies , but in deference to a father's wishes , he not only selected medicine as his pursuit , but prose- cuted it so vigorously as to distance all his coevals . Gladly would we have recorded the converse ...
... strong repugnance to medical studies , but in deference to a father's wishes , he not only selected medicine as his pursuit , but prose- cuted it so vigorously as to distance all his coevals . Gladly would we have recorded the converse ...
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... strong turn for letters . Our friend delighted in reading books , and sometimes dreamed of making them . And in a learned pursuit he doubtless reckoned on a large amount of literary leisure . This is frequently a mistake . A clergyman ...
... strong turn for letters . Our friend delighted in reading books , and sometimes dreamed of making them . And in a learned pursuit he doubtless reckoned on a large amount of literary leisure . This is frequently a mistake . A clergyman ...
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... strong relief against the blazing sky Appears the shadow as it passes by . ; And though o'erwhelming to the dazzled brain , These are the moments when the mind is sane ; For then , a hope in heaven - the Saviour's cross , Seem what they ...
... strong relief against the blazing sky Appears the shadow as it passes by . ; And though o'erwhelming to the dazzled brain , These are the moments when the mind is sane ; For then , a hope in heaven - the Saviour's cross , Seem what they ...
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... strong and hopeful , they bore away down the Mersey . * * From Mr Ritchie's communication , already mentioned , we may give the following particulars of the last hour at Liverpool . Captain Gardiner had not yet reached the vessel ...
... strong and hopeful , they bore away down the Mersey . * * From Mr Ritchie's communication , already mentioned , we may give the following particulars of the last hour at Liverpool . Captain Gardiner had not yet reached the vessel ...
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Parole e frasi comuni
66 Tuesday able anchor arrived Badcock Banner Cove beach Beagle Channel betwixt bless blowing boat Burslem canoes Cape Captain Gardiner cheerful Christ Christian cold comfort Cook's River danger dark delightful Erwin eternal faith favor fear feel felt friends Fuegian Garden Island glorious glory God's grace greatly guanaco hand heart heaven heavenly holy hope Jemmy Jemmy Button Jesus land Lennox Harbour light Lord Maidment meerschaum mercy mind mission missionary Montevideo morning natives Navarin Island ness never night o'clock Ocean Queen party Patagonian PATAGONIAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY peace Picton Island Pioneer poor praise prayer present rejoice rocks salvation Saturday Saviour scarcely seemed shewed ship shore sight soon soul Spaniard Harbour Speedwell Spirit Staten Island Straits of Magellan thee things thought tide Tierra del Fuego tion To-day truth unto vessel voyage weather whilst wigwam Williams wind