My Child-life in Burmah: Or, Recollection and IncidentsM. H. Bixby, 1880 - 172 pages |
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My Child-life in Burmah: Or, Recollection and Incidents Olive Jennie Bixby Affichage du livre entier - 1880 |
My Child-life in Burmah: Or, Recollection and Incidents Olive Jennie Bixby Affichage du livre entier - 1880 |
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asked bamboo baptized Bay of Bengal beautiful boat Buddhist buffalo Burman burning called carry chapel CHILD-LIFE IN BURMAH Christ Christian coolies curry dark death delight elephant father feet flowers friends fruit Gaudama Geckho chief gospel ground growing H'tee hair hands heard heart heathen idol jack-fruit Jesus journey jungle Karens keezee labor land little girls Mah Mōng mats miles mission missionary morning mother Moung Ong Moung See Dee mountains native never night offerings ornaments Padoungs pagoda palm-tree plantains ponies prayers preacher priests Rangoon reach religion returned rice rice and curry ride river ropes rupees seed Shan Shway-da-gōng Shway-nan-ghyee side Sinim sionary sometimes son of Hades soon soul t'maing teacher teak Th'rah Tah Dee thing thought tion took Toungoo tree tribes trunk truth village visited wife wild woman women worship ZAYAT
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Page 65 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 171 - In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Page 160 - Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
Page 143 - O! the one life within us and abroad, Which meets all motion and becomes its soul, A light in sound, a sound-like power in light Rhythm in all thought, and joyance...
Page 110 - God would gloriously display his power and love, in the fulfilment of his gracious promise that " the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea.
Page 76 - Anciently, God commanded, but Satan appeared bringing destruction. Formerly, God commanded, but Satan appeared deceiving unto death. The woman Eu and the man Tha-nai pleased not the eye of the dragon, The...
Page 76 - The great dragon succeeded in deceiving — deceiving unto death. How do they say it was done ? A yellow fruit took the great dragon, and gave to the children of God ; A white fruit took the great dragon, and gave to the daughter and son of God. They transgressed the commands of God, and God turned his face from them. They transgressed the commands of God, and God turned away from them. They kept not all the words of God — were deceived, deceived unto sickness ; They kept not all the law of God...
Page 120 - shine as the brightness of the firmament, and as the stars for ever and ever.
Page 45 - While some bring leaves of Henna, to imbue The fingers' ends with a bright roseate hue, So bright, that in the mirror's depth they seem Like tips of coral branches in the stream : And others mix the Kohol's jetty...
Page 84 - ... false religions, but with truth. Its entire base is false. It is built, not on love to God, nor even love to man, but on personal merit. It is a system of religion without a God. It is literally atheism. Instead of a Heavenly Father, forgiving sin, and filial service from a pure heart, as the effect of love, it presents nothing to love, for its Deity is dead ; nothing as the ultimate object of action but self; and nothing for man's highest and holiest ambition but annihilation.