Li Hung Chang's Scrap-bookWatts, 1913 - 382 páginas |
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Página x
... able to build locomotives and steamships to have a religion based on a belief in devils , ghosts , impossible mira- cles , and all the other absurdities and impossibilities peculiar to the religion taught by the missionaries . I found ...
... able to build locomotives and steamships to have a religion based on a belief in devils , ghosts , impossible mira- cles , and all the other absurdities and impossibilities peculiar to the religion taught by the missionaries . I found ...
Página xiii
... able to get so much out of the soil " as the Chinese , their skill in this direction being 66 simply incomparable . They are very tolerant in " their ideas , and there has never been any religious persecution in China ; they do not ...
... able to get so much out of the soil " as the Chinese , their skill in this direction being 66 simply incomparable . They are very tolerant in " their ideas , and there has never been any religious persecution in China ; they do not ...
Página xvii
... able to meet all comers ; and I think I have succeeded . My next contact with the missionaries was in the summer of 1895. I was then invited to attend a meeting that had been called in London for the purpose of sympathising with the ...
... able to meet all comers ; and I think I have succeeded . My next contact with the missionaries was in the summer of 1895. I was then invited to attend a meeting that had been called in London for the purpose of sympathising with the ...
Página xxiv
... no small degree for skill . I have therefore some hope that I have been able to present the matter in such a light as at least to call attention to the great injustices Hiram S. Mayim that have been and are being inflicted xxiv FOREWORD.
... no small degree for skill . I have therefore some hope that I have been able to present the matter in such a light as at least to call attention to the great injustices Hiram S. Mayim that have been and are being inflicted xxiv FOREWORD.
Página xxviii
... able to tell the truth . The Chinese regard this work as the most truthful of any to be found in Europe or America . THE RIDDLE OF THE UNIVERSE . By Professor Ernst Haeckel . ( Watts ; 4s . 6d . net . ) As Professor Haeckel occupies one ...
... able to tell the truth . The Chinese regard this work as the most truthful of any to be found in Europe or America . THE RIDDLE OF THE UNIVERSE . By Professor Ernst Haeckel . ( Watts ; 4s . 6d . net . ) As Professor Haeckel occupies one ...
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Página 40 - Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
Página 8 - And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself: and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
Página 8 - And he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men : and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
Página 8 - But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. 10 And thou shalt stone him with stones that he die...
Página 13 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother...
Página 172 - And I saw an Angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years...
Página 8 - Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord.
Página 366 - And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Página 126 - There are parts of Asia Minor, of Northern Africa, of Greece, and even of Alpine Europe, where the operation of causes set in action by man has brought the face of the earth to a desolation almost as complete as that of the moon ; and though, within that brief space of time xvhich we call
Página 64 - V, solemnly rendered a decree that "the doctrine of the double motion of the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, and entirely contrary to Holy Scripture"; and that this opinion must neither be taught nor advocated. The same decree condemned all writings of Copernicus and "all writings which affirm the motion of the earth.