 I am convinced that the first step towards the promotion of a nation's temporal and social elevation, is to plant amongst them the tree of life, when civilization and commerce will entwine their tendrils around its trunk, and derive support from its strength....  The Family Library (Harper). - Page 2041845Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | John Williams - 1837 - 654 pages
...commerce will entwine their tendrils around its trunk, and derive support from its strength. Until the people are brought under the influence of religion,...desire for the arts and usages of civilized life; but that invariably creates it. The Missionaries were at Tahiti many years, during which they built... | |
 | 1838 - 492 pages
...commerce will entwine their tendrils around its trunk, and derive support from its strength. Until the people are brought under the influence of religion,...no desire for the arts and usages of civilized life ; but that invariably creates it. The missionaries were at Tahiti many years, during which they built... | |
 | William Beattie - 1839 - 154 pages
...commerce will entwine their tendrils around its trunk, and derive support from its strength. Until the people are brought under the influence of religion,...no desire for the arts and usages of civilized life ; but that invariably creates it. The missionaries were at Tahiti many years, during which they built... | |
 | John Williams - 1840 - 174 pages
...their tendrils around its trunk, and derive support from its strength. Until the people are hrought under the influence of religion, they have no desire for the arts and usages of civilized life; but that invariably creates it. The Missionaries were at Tahiti many years, during which they built... | |
 | Sarah Tappan Smith - 1841 - 410 pages
...commerce will entwine their tendrils around its trunk, and derive support from its strength. Until the people are brought under the influence of religion,...desire for the arts and usages of civilized life; but that invariably creates it. The missionaries were at Tahiti many years, during which they built... | |
 | 1884 - 626 pages
...wand of missions. Rev. J. \\ illiams, a labourer who has a right to be heard, tells us, " Until the people are brought under the influence of religion...no desire for the arts and usages of civilized life ; but that invariably create* it. The missionaries were at Tahiti many years, during which they built... | |
 | John Campbell - 1842 - 562 pages
...commerce will entwine their tendrils around its trunk, and derive support from its strength. Until the people are brought under the influence of religion,...no desire for the arts and usages of civilized life ; but that invariably creates it. The missionaries were at Tahiti many years, during which they built... | |
 | Ebenezer Prout - 1846 - 544 pages
...commerce will entwine their tendrils around its trunk, and derive support from its strength. Until the people are brought under the influence of religion, they have no desire for the art* and usages of civilized life ; but that invariably creates it. The Missionaries were at Tahiti... | |
 | Resident - 1847 - 280 pages
...commerce will entwine their tendrils around its trunk, and derive support from its strength. Until the people are brought under the influence of religion, they have no desire for the arts and usages of civilised life ; but that invariably creates it The missionaries were at Tahiti many years, during... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - 1851 - 446 pages
...English missionary, Williams, remarks of the South Sea savages, with whom he labored, " That until the people are brought under the influence of religion,...desire for the arts and usages of civilized life; but that invariably creates it. While the natives are under the influence of their superstitions, they... | |
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