 | John Williams - 1837 - 654 pages
...is my wish that the Christian religion should become universal amongst us. I look," continued he, " at the wisdom of these worshippers of Jehovah, and...they can traverse the tempest-driven ocean for months with perfect safety, whereas, if a breeze blow upon our canoes, they are in an instant upset, and we... | |
 | John Williams - 1840 - 174 pages
...is my wish that the Christian religion should hecome universal amongst us. I look," continued he, '' at the wisdom of these worshippers of Jehovah, and...superior they are to us in every respect. Their ships arc like floating houses, so that they can traverse the tempest-driven ocean for months with perfect... | |
 | Michael Russell - 1842 - 464 pages
...that in most cases of conversion at the Navigators' and other islands, the change was not effected by any intelligible appeal either to the reason or...people to sing, they replied that they had begun to So so. but as the females sang the hymns at their dances, they had thought it better to desist. For... | |
 | 1843 - 598 pages
...a chief of the Navigators' Islands. " It is my wish," said he, " that the Christian religion should become universal amongst us. I look at the wisdom...they can traverse the tempest-driven ocean for months with perfect safety, whereas if a breeze blow upon our canoes, they are in an instant upset, and we... | |
 | Alexander Marjoribanks - 1845 - 190 pages
...chief rose up and addressed them as follows. — " It is my wish that the Christian religion should become universal amongst us. I look at the wisdom...that they can traverse the tempest.driven ocean for many months with perfect safety ; whereas if a breeze blow upon our canoes, they are in an instant... | |
 | 1845 - 378 pages
...youd."— P. 421. said one of the chiefs, " lhat the Christian religion should become universal among us. I look at the wisdom of these worshippers of Jehovah,...they can traverse the tempest-driven ocean for months with perfect safety, whereas if a breeze blow upon our canoes, they are in an instant upset, and we... | |
 | Ebenezer Prout - 1846 - 544 pages
...It is my wish that the Christian religion should become universal amongst us. I look," continued he, "at the •wisdom of these worshippers of Jehovah,...they can traverse the tempest-driven ocean for months with perfect safety ; whereas, if a breeze blow upon our canoes, they are in an instant upset, and... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1854 - 632 pages
...discussions : — ' It is my wish,' said a venerable chief, on rising, ' that the Christian religion should become universal amongst us. I look at the wisdom...how superior they are to us in every respect. Their persons are covered from head to foot in beautiful clothes, while we wear nothing but a girdle of leaves.... | |
 | Thomas William M. Marshall - 1862 - 620 pages
...quotes the speech of one of their chiefs, who thus recommended the English religion to his people. « Look at the wisdom of these worshippers of Jehovah,...they can traverse the tempest-driven ocean for months with perfect safety ; whereas, if a breeze blow upon our canoes, they are in an instant upset, and... | |
 | Thomas William M. Marshall - 1863 - 664 pages
...quotes the speech of one of their chiefs, who thus recommended the English religion to his people : " Look at the wisdom of these worshippers of Jehovah,...they can traverse the tempest-driven ocean for months with perfect safety ; whereas, if a breeze blow upon our canoes, they are in an instant upset, and... | |
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at the wisdom of these worshippers of Jehovah, and see how superior they are to us in every respect. Their ships are like floating houses, so that they can traverse the tempest-driven ocean for months with perfect safety, whereas, if a breeze blow upon... 
