 There is something approaching the sublime in the lofty noddings of the kahiles of state, as they tower far above the heads of the group whose distinction they proclaim : something conveying to the mind impressions of greater majesty than the gleanings...  The New Hawaii - Page 127de Charmian London, Jack London - 1923 - 270 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1828 - 594 pages
...discovered by Cook. There is something approaching the sublime in the lofty noddings of the kahiles of state, as they tower far above the heads of the...to the mind impressions of greater majesty than the gloamings of the most splendid banner I ever saw unfurled. The queens Kinau and Kekau-onohi presented... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - 1828 - 340 pages
...discovered by Cook. There is something approaching the sublime in the lofty noddings of the kahiles of state, as they tower far above the heads of the...greater majesty than the gleamings of the most splendid banner 1 ever saw unfurled. The queens Kinau and Kekauonohi presented themselves much in the same manner... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - 1828 - 260 pages
...discovered by Cook, There is something approaching the sublime in the lofty noddings of the kahiles of state, as they tower far above the heads of the...to the mind impressions of greater majesty than the ^learnings of the most splendid banner I ever saw unfurled. The queens Kinau and Kekauonohi presented... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - 1828 - 334 pages
...discovered by Cook. There is something approaching the sublime in the lofty noddings of the kahiles of state, as they tower far above the heads of the...to the mind impressions of greater majesty than the gleamings.of the most splendid banner I ever saw unfurled. The queens Kinau and Kekauonohi presented... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - 1828 - 428 pages
...discovered by Cook. There is something approaching the sublime in the lofty noddings of the kahiles of state, as they tower far above the heads of the...to the mind impressions of greater majesty than the gleanings of the most splendid banner I ever saw unfurled. The queens Kinau and Kekau-onohi presented... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - 1839 - 356 pages
...discovered by Cook. There is something approaching the sublime in the lofty noddings of the kahiles of state, as they tower far above the heads of the...— something conveying to the mind impressions of majesty unequaled by the gleamings of the most splendid banner I ever saw unfurled. The queens Kinau... | |
 | 1900 - 958 pages
...funeral procession is graphically described by the Rev. CS Richards, missionary on the islands in 1822: "There is something approaching the sublime in the...gleamings of the most splendid banners I ever saw unfurled " (page 20). Lets. — This ornament is formed by attaching feathers to a cord in a symmetric manner,... | |
 | Charmian London - 1922 - 486 pages
...or eighteen inches in diameter. In 1822, one of the second party of missionaries went into ecstacies over these feather devices of Hawaii royalty : "So...splendid banners I ever saw unfurled." Dr. Brigham comments upon the foregoing: "Not in the least does the excellent missionary exaggerate in his eulogy... | |
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