Letters on the Moral and Religious State of South America: Written During a Residence of Nearly Seven Years in Buenos Aires, Chile, Peru, and ColombiaJ. Nisbet, 1827 - 296 страници |
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Страница 198 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise...
Страница 63 - The Roman Catholic Apostolic Religion is the religion of the state, and the exercise of every other is excluded.' " We are not to be surprised that the matter has ended in this manner ; perhaps we should rather wonder that there was any one of the members of the Congress disposed to speak, or even to tbink on the side of toleration.
Страница 28 - The object of this institution is to extend, in every direction throughout Chili, the benefits of education ; to promote the instruction of all classes, but especially of the poor...
Страница 75 - lest they come into this place of torment," which was — "they have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them; and if they hear not Moses and the prophets neither would they be persuaded though one rose from the dead.
Страница 159 - How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire : for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
Страница 177 - After thinking for some time upon what would be the speediest and most effectual way of disposing of the New Testaments, it occurred to me that the best thing I could do would be to print an advertisement, and to give notice of the sale by posting these up in the public places of the different towns I pass through on my journey.
Страница 139 - Ghost ; whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Страница 178 - This sale will continue for (6) days only, and it is expected that those who wish to procure for themselves this sacred code of our Holy Religion, will improve the occasion now offered them." As this advertisement was intended not for this place alone, but for others also, I left the blank (a) to be filled up with the pen to suit each place, and the blank...
Страница 27 - Government has resolved zealouly to protect this establishment, and, as the best way of fulfilling its intention, has resolved to unite with it in this object those persons who have the same sentiments on the subject, and who at the same time possess that activity, zeal and energy, which this important matter demands. In all places this system of instruction prospers, and extends itself under the fostering care of societies. This circumstance at once determined me to follow the example thus set before...
Страница 256 - Нал-ing closed the Book, he said, with a trembling but solemn voice, " God, who doeth all things according to the counsel of His own will, has been pleased to send us a heavy affliction. ' The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away ! ' May He enable us to say at all times, ' Blessed be the name of the Lord.