Africa UnveiledSociety for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1876 - 313 pagini |
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Pagina 257 - HISTORY OF INDIA. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day. By LJ TROTTER, author of "Studies in Biography," and " A Sequel to Thornton's History of India.
Pagina 257 - FOR FAITH AND FATHERLAND. By M. BRAMSTON, author of "Rosamond Ferrars," &c. With Three full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo Cloth boards a 6 GIRLS OF BREDON (THE) ; AND MANOR HOUSE STORIES.
Pagina 257 - Bevelled boards, gilt edges 7 6 SNOWBALL SOCIETY (THE) : a Story for Children. By M. BRAMSTON, author of " Rosamond Ferrars,
Pagina 257 - Most of these Works may be had in Ornamental Bindings, with Gilt Edges, at a small extra charge. • Price.
Pagina 103 - But our knowledge does not urge us to search out the roots of it ; we do not try to see them ; if any one thinks ever so little, he soon gives it up, and passes on to what he sees with his eyes ; and he does not understand the real state of even what he sees.
Pagina 257 - CHINA : THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE OF. A short Account of the Geography, History, Religion, Social Life, Arts, Industries, and Government of China and its People. By J. THOMSON, Esq., FRGS, Author of " Illustrations of China and its ^ People, &c.
Pagina 72 - ... all orders and degrees of men, so the Gospel never can be effectually defended by a policy, which declines to acknowledge the high place assigned to Liberty in the counsels of Providence, and which, upon the pretext of the abuse that like every other good she suffers, expels her from its system. Among the many noble thoughts of Homer, there is not one more noble or more penetrating than his judgment upon slavery. " On the day," he says, " that makes a bondman of the free," " Wide-seeing Zeus...
Pagina 173 - ... break of day. The time arrives, and quietly surrounding the village while its occupants are still sleeping, they fire the grass huts in all directions, and pour volleys of musketry through the flaming thatch. Panic-stricken, the unfortunate victims rush from their burning dwellings...
Pagina 257 - Bibles," &c. With Four full-page Illustrations and numerous smaller Engravings. Post 8vo Cloth boards a 6 JEWISH NATION (A HISTORY OF THE), from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. By EH PALMER, Esq., MA, Fellow of St. John's College, and Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge, author of the ' ' Desert of the Exodus,
Pagina 257 - Clothboards 2 6 STORIES FROM ITALIAN HISTORY. By B. MONTGOMERIE RANKING. With Two full-page Illustrations on toned paper. Crown 8vo Cloth boards i 6 Two VOYAGES, AND WHAT CAME OF THEM. By the author of " Motherless Maggie,