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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

ment in the organization of their civil polity, which, under corresponding circumstances, is but rarely attained, and could scarcely have been expected. Their government, in all its multiplied ramifications, was closely interwoven with their false system of religion, in its abstract theory, and in its practical details. The god and the king were generally supposed to share the authority over the mass of mankind between them. The latter sometimes personated the former, and received the homage

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

was finished, the multitude on the beach, and in the surrounding canoes, lifted up the right-hand, and greeted the new monarch with loud and universal acclamations of Maeva arii! maeva arii! The steersman in the sacred canoe struck his paddle against the side of the vessel, which, was the signal to the rowers, who instantly started from the shore towards the reef; having the god, and the king, girded as it were with the deity, on board; the priests beating their large drum, and sounding their

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

receives from his patrons are valuable, but they are frequently too much like letters of business, or treat only of general subjects. His communications from his relatives and friends are of a much more touching and interesting character. These, though they deeply affect, do not engross his soul; he feels connected with, and interested in, the general advancement of the Redeemer's kingdom, and the gigantic energies of those institutions of Christian benevolence and enterprise, which, under God

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

majesty of God, who bringeth out their host by number, and called them all by names, by the greatness of his might, and by whom also the very hairs of the head are all numbered, impressed at [page] 41

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

mahu, mist or vapour, and are distinguished in the same way, one being above, the other below. Like most uninformed persons, they supposed the earth was stationary, being borne on the shoulders of a god, fixed upon a rock, which they called the rock of foundation supported by pillars, and that the sun, moon, and stars, moved from one side of the arched heavens to the other. When we at first endeavoured to impart to them more correct ideas of astronomy, and exhibited to their view a terrestrial

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

sometimes remark we believe it because you say so, but we cannot understand it. These observations were made only when the subject was first brought under their notice. The intelligent among them now entertain far more consistent views. Among the Harvey Islands, they worshipped a god of thunder; but he does not appear to have been an object of great terror to any of them. The thunder was supposed, to be produced by the clapping of his wings. The ignis fatuus, they considered as one of their

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

heathen, lawless savages, is a document so important in the history of the people, as to justify its entire insertion. The title is E Ture na Huahine: A Law,* or Code of Laws, for Huahine, caused to grow in the government or reign of Teriitetia, Hautia, and Mahine, subordinate (rulers) and the Imprint is Huahine, printed at the Mission press, 1823. The following is the Introduction immediately after the names of the queen and two principal chiefs From the favour of God, we have our government

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

appearance Interview between the rival parties Return of Hautia and the captives Frequency of war in the South Sea Islands Polynesian war-god Religious ceremonies and human sacrifices, prior to the commencement of hostilities National councils Mustering of forces Emblems of the gods taken to the war Strength of their fleets or armies The battle of Hooroto Women engaging in war Martial music Modes of attack Single combats, challenges, c. The rauti, or orators of battle Sacrifice of the first

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

to bend them to the news of those whose object was to introduce disorder and to foster crime; to let them know at once, that though they were chiefs, they, as well as their subjects, must respect the laws, or sustain the consequences. We think they will submit, (he added,) but perhaps we are mistaken, and the issue of this day is not altogether certain. God, who overrules all events, and sometimes uses the wicked to accomplish his purposes, may, perhaps, design by them to punish and to humble us

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

man, and not a god, his head reaches not to the skies. Who is Taute? The king's spirits and courage never revived. If it was a naval expedition, canoes were now collected and equipped, and the weapons put in order, the spears and clubs cleaned with a boar's tusk, pointed with bones of the sting-ray, and having been carefully polished, the handle of every weapon was covered with the resinous gum of the bread-fruit, that it might adhere to the warrior's hand, and render his grasp firm. When the

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

who were employed as messengers, to fetch the latter in cases of emergency; each god had his own messenger, hovering about the habitations of men, in the shape of a bird or a shark. When the priest by prayers sought the aid of these gods, they imagined that the messenger set off to the place of the god's abode, somewhere in fare papa, near the foundation of the world, and made the usual declaration Mai haere i te ao e tamae ti te ao, Come to the world, or state of light, there is war in the

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

and the augmented fame they should acquire by the addition of their present foes to the number of those they had already slain; in conclusion, inviting them to advance, that they might be devoted to their god, who was hovering by to receive the sacrifice. With taunting scorn the antagonist would reply much in the same strain, sometimes mingling affected pity with his denunciations. When they had finished their harangue, the omoreaa, club of insult, or insulting spear, was raised, and the onset

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

the priest of Oro walking by the side, offering his prayer to the god, and watching the writhings and involuntary agitation of the dying man. If these agonies were deemed favourable, he pronounced victory as certain. Such indications were considered most encouraging, as earnests of the god's co-operation. When a distinguished chief or warrior fell, the party, to which he belonged, retired a short distance, collected some of their bravest men, and then, in a body, with fury and revenge rushed

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

ultimate decision, and at these times they always pretended to follow implicitly supernatural intimation, though all this juggling and contrivance was designed only to deceive the people into a persuasion that the god sanctioned the views of the king and government. The divinations were connected with the offerings, and the success or failure of the expedition was often chiefly augured from the muscular action in the heart or liver of the animal offered, or the involuntary acts and writhing

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

, was taken to the priests of Oro, partly as an acknowledgment for past success, but chiefly to encourage them to increased intercession that the destruction the god had commenced might not cease till their enemies were annihilated, for their wars were wars of extermination. One singular result of their dreadful wars is, the existence of a number of wild men inhabiting the fastnesses of the interior mountains of Tahiti. I have not heard of any having been seen in any other island, but they have

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

sea, here are your offerings, c. The priests of the besieged, on the contrary, endeavoured to detain the gods, by exhibiting whatever property they possessed, if they considered the god likely to leave them. A warrior would often offer himself, and say, Eiaha e haere, Leave us not, here is your offering, O Oro! even I! It is hardly possible to avoid admiring the patriotism evinced on such occasions. It was a devotion worthy of a better cause. Although the besieged might offer their human

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

: Let our hands forget how to hi te omore, or vero ti patio, lift the club, or throw the spear: Let our guns decay with rust, we want them not; for though we have been pierced with balls or spears, if we pierce each other now, let it be with the word of God: How happy are we now, we sleep not with our cartridges under our heads, our muskets by our side, and our hearts palpitating with alarm: Now we have the Bible, we know the Saviour; and if all knew him, if all bowed the knee to him, there would

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

. He made a profession of belief in the true God, and the only Saviour, in 1812; and there is every reason to believe that, according to the knowledge he had of Christianity, and the duties it enjoined, he was sincere. He bore the persecution and ridicule to which he was exposed, on this account, with firmness and temper, [page] 53

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

valuable aid in its introduction, were highly serviceable to the nation. Without presuming to pronounce an opinion on his final state, he certainly was employed by God (who selects his agents from whatever station he chooses, and uses them just so long as he sees fit,) as a principal instrument in subverting idol-worship, introducing the gospel of Jesus Christ, and establishing a code of laws founded on the principles of true religion; he is therefore to be considered, if not a father, undoubtedly

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

actions of the day were seated around and behind the king. The youthful Pomare, being only four years of age, was necessarily passive in the important business. Mr. Davies, one of the senior Missionaries, spoke for him; and as all were requested to take a part in the ceremonies, when the king had been asked if he promised to govern the people with justice and mercy, agreeably to the laws and the word of God, Mr. Nott placed the crown on his head, and pronounced a benediction upon the young

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

pose of receiving, with the children of the Missionaries, a systematic English education. His disposition was affectionate, his progress encouraging, and he promised fair to gain a correct acquaintance with the English language, which, had he lived, by giving him the key to all the stores of knowledge contained in it, would have conferred on him a most commanding influence among the people, over whom the providence of God had made him king. So far as his faculties were developed, they were not

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

, as will appear from the fact of its being still carried on by exchange or barter. The circulation of money is very limited, and its use known to but few. The fondest hope of every Missionary is, that his children may grow up in the fear of God, be made partakers [page] 54

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

, habits, taste, and opinions, have to be formed principally, if not entirely, by the Missionary that for some generations, at least, every Missionary's child, trained for the Missionary work even by a father's hand, and blessed with the grace of God, ought to finish his education in the [page] 54

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

of a Christian Missionary; but these indispensable requisites, it is unnecessary to remark, a parent, with all his solicitude and care, cannot always secure. God may see fit to withhold those decisive evidences of genuine piety, without which the fondest parent would tremble at the idea of introducing even his [page] 55

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

commencement of their labours, I addressed the people, and, recommending Mrs. Ellis and our dear children to their kind attentions under God, I took leave of them. The meeting was peculiarly impressive and affecting; and after mutually committing each other, under deep inten [page] 55

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

sity of feeling, to the guidance and the keeping of the God of all our mercies, the whole congregation walked from the chapel to the sea-shore, where we exchanged our last salutations; the deputation, the two native Missionaries and their wives, five other natives and myself, now embarked, and the Mermaid stood out to sea. The weather was on the whole pleasant, and we reached the Sandwich Islands in about a month after our departure from Huahine. While supping at our table, on the night

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

or dwelling in the houses of their chiefs, live together in the neat little cottages reared by their own industry, and find satisfaction and comfort in each other's society. Every household virtue adorns their families; the children grow up the objects of their mutual affection, and call into exercise new solicitudes and unwonted emotions of delight. Often they appear sitting together reading the Scriptures, walking in company to the house of God, or surrounding, not indeed the family hearth

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A708.2 Beagle Library: Dillon, Peter. 1829. Narrative and successful result of a voyage in the South Seas: performed by order of the government of British India, to ascertain the actual fate of La Peyrouse's expedition. 2 vols. London: Hurst, Chance. vol. 2. Text

their notion of their own immortality did not lead them to expect. About this time one of them felt himself strangely affected, and by this he knew that one of the superior gods was coming from Bolotoo to inspire him. In a 1ittle time he was actually inspired, and was told that the chief god had decreed that, as they had come to Tonga, and had breathed the air of the place, and had fed upon the produce of the place, they should become mortal, and people the world with mortal beings, and all

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A760.03 Beagle Library: Cuvier, Georges. 1829-30. Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation pour servir de base ä l'histoire naturelle des animaux, 2nd ed., 5 vols. Paris: Déterville and Crochard. vol. 3. [vols.4 and 5 listed separately under Latreille] Text

Tubingen en 1748, professeur de chimie Gottingen, mort en 18.. Il est l'auteur de la 13e et derni re dition du Systema natur de Linn us. Son travail, tout indigeste et d nu de critique et de connaissance des choses, est cependant n cessaire, comme la seule table un peu compl te de ce qui a t fait jusque vers 1790. GOD. GODART (Jean-Baptiste), proviseur sous le r gime imp rial, au lyc e de Bonn, mort en 1825. A r dig l'article Papillon de l'Encyclop die m thodique, et a publi les cinq premiers

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A760.05 Beagle Library: Latreille, Pierre André. 1829. Suite et fin des insectes. In Cuvier, Georges. 1829-30. Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation pour servir de base ä l'histoire naturelle des animaux, 2d ed., Paris: Déterville and Crochard, vol. 5. Text

sous-g nres. Les PI RIDES. (PIERIS. Schr. Pontia. Fab.) Dont les palpes inf rieurs sont presque cylindriques, peu comprim s, avec le dernier article, presque aussi long au moins que le pr c dent, et o la massue des antennes est ovo de (3). (1) Voyez God., ibid., et l'Encyclop. m thod., m me article, G. Parnassien. (2) Les Pap. hysipyle, rumina, Fab.; Voyez aussi les ouvrages pr cit s. (3) Ici se rangent les l pidopt res d sign s sous le nom g n ral de Brassicaires, tels que le grand papillon du

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A760.05 Beagle Library: Latreille, Pierre André. 1829. Suite et fin des insectes. In Cuvier, Georges. 1829-30. Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation pour servir de base ä l'histoire naturelle des animaux, 2d ed., Paris: Déterville and Crochard, vol. 5. Text

sous-genre se distingne de celui de vanesse. Cependant les chenilles sont diff rentes; outre qu'elles n'ont que quelques pines, ou quelques mi (1) Voyez, pour les autres esp ces, God., ibid.; et l'article PAPILLON de l'Encyclop. m thod., G. Vanesse. (2) Voyez les ouvrages pr cit s. (3) Item. [page] 38

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A760.05 Beagle Library: Latreille, Pierre André. 1829. Suite et fin des insectes. In Cuvier, Georges. 1829-30. Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation pour servir de base ä l'histoire naturelle des animaux, 2d ed., Paris: Déterville and Crochard, vol. 5. Text

remarquables. (1) Ajoutez l'O. gnostigma d'Ochsenheimer. Les autres seront des s ricaires. (2) Les h piales Testudo, Asellus, Bufo de Fab.; voyez God., L pid. de France, IV, 2791, XXVIII, 1, 2. [page] 40

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A760.05 Beagle Library: Latreille, Pierre André. 1829. Suite et fin des insectes. In Cuvier, Georges. 1829-30. Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation pour servir de base ä l'histoire naturelle des animaux, 2d ed., Paris: Déterville and Crochard, vol. 5. Text

, par un caract re unique, tir de l'absence des pattes anales de l'animal, consid r en tat de larve ou de chenille. L'extr mit post rieure du corps se termine en pointe, qui, dans plusieurs, est fourchue, ou pr sente m me deux appendices articul s, longs et mobiles, formant une sorte de queue. Sous le rapport de la trompe, des palpes et des antennes, ces l pidopt res s' loignent peu des pr c dents. Quelques-uns, tels que Les DICRANOURES. (DICRANOURA. God. Cerura. Schr. Harpyia. Ochs.) Ont le port

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A914 Book: Lawrence, John. 1829. The horse in all his varieties and uses. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green. Text

. I do not, however, presume to dogmatize upon the subject, leaving the rationale of it to be adjusted by proprietors and their professional advisers. But I shall hold forth with all my former derision in contempt of that wretched, scalt miserable practice, at a certain period recommended on authority, compelling the horse to stand in the stable, shifting and easing his benumbed and aching limbs upon the cold stones, with the view of hardening his hoofs, God wot! A rare device truly, to deaden

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A914 Book: Lawrence, John. 1829. The horse in all his varieties and uses. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green. Text

body's business, is nobody's business: and in good honest truth, did the public ever reflect as a body, it might pause on the numerous mishaps, which it has brought upon itself. Nothing, however, of this is probable to happen, for we are naturally and habitually, every one for himself, and God for us all; and on all occasions the principle seems to be the devil take the hindmost. There is one point, nevertheless, in which all men seem to agree, indeed to act in a body, if it may be called

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A914 Book: Lawrence, John. 1829. The horse in all his varieties and uses. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green. Text

their sovereignty, and turn it to rigour, as a tyrannous king, contrary to the commandment of God, for we should be merciful as our Father is merciful; which is not only extended in his promise, but also in his providence, which preserveth as well the unreasonable, as the reasonable creatures; and, therefore, they should be used to the ends for which they were ordained, for the use, service, and delight of man, and have a care over them, being for our profit: and I pray you, what care or pity

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A914 Book: Lawrence, John. 1829. The horse in all his varieties and uses. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green. Text

turn. The course was straight; and at the end of two miles stood a pillar, around which the racers turned, running home again to the starting post, in order to complete the four miles. But the cream of all this remains to be skimmed. At some distance beyond the pillar, or sharp turn just passed, another trial presented itself for the skill of the riders or drivers. It was no less than the terrific and scarecrow figure of the god, Taraxippus, the alarmer of horses, placed in full view of the

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A919.3 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3. Text

und Winterthur, 1781 94. 4to. GEOFFROY. Geoff Histoire abreg e des Insectes, dans laquelle ces animaux sont rang s suivant un ordre m thodique. 2 tom. Paris, 1764. 4to. GERMAR. Germ Magazin der Entomologie. Halle. 3 tom. 1813. 8vo. GERMAR. Insectorum species nov aut minus cognit , descriptionibus illustrat . Hal , 1824. 12mo. GLEDITSCH. Gled Systematische Einleitung in die neuere forstwissenschaft. Berlin, 1775. 8vo. GODART DUPONCHEL. God. Histoire Naturelle des Lepidopt res de France. Paris

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A895 Beagle Library: Whateley, Richard. 1829. A view of the Scripture revelations concerning a future state. London: B. Fellowes. Text

. Theirs is a history of miracles, the historical picture of the scene in which the Spirit of God was poured on all flesh, and signs and wonders, visions and dreams, were part of the essentials of their narratives. How is all this related? With the same absence of high colouring and extravagant description with which other writers notice the ordinary occurrences of the world: partly no doubt for the like reason, that they were really familiar with miracles; partly too because to them these miracles

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A549.1 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 1 Text Image

heaven, we are banished to the fire, we die; but let us not be banished to that unknown world of fire. Save thou us through Jesus Christ, thy Son, the prince of life; yea, let us obtain salvation through him. Bless all the inhabitants of these islands, all the families thereof; let everyone stretch out his hands unto God, and say, Lord save me, Lord save me. Let all these islands, Tahiti with all the people of Moorea, and of Hundine, and of Raiatea, and of the little islands around, partake of thy

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A549.1 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 1 Text Image

reign of a certain king, when the people ate araea, red earth, a husband and wife had an only son, whom they tenderly loved. The youth was weak and delicate; and one day the husband said to the wife, I compassionate our son, he is unable to eat the red earth. I will die, and become food for our son. The wife said, How will you become food? He answered, I will pray to my god; he has power, and he will enable me to do it. Accordingly, he repaired to the family marae, and presented his petition to

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

ships come again from which any of the goods have been stolen, take them back, together with a present to the captain or the carpenter, expressive of your desire to make restitution. They all said Oh, no, we cannot take them back; we have had no peace ever since we heard it was displeasing to God, and we shall have no peace so long as they remain in our dwellings; we wish you to take them, and give them back to the owners whenever they come. Such was the power of conscience, that although they

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.) Ont des antennes termin es brusquement en une massue paisse, en forme de c ne renvers , et les palpes inf rieurs courts, ne s' levant point au-del du chaperon. Les m les ont pr s du bord interne des ailes inf rieures une fente lon gitudinale, couverte de poils (1). Les EUM NIES. (EUMENIA. God.) Dont les palpes inf rieurs sont plus longs, et o les antennes, peu de distance de leur origine, s' paisissent graduellement et forment une massue fort along e (2). Les EURYBIES. (EURYBIA. Illig.) Se

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Le P. bleu (Papilio alexis, H bn., LX, 292 294), l'argus bleu, Geoff. God., Hist. natur. des l pid. de France, I, 11, sec., 3. Le dessus des ailes du m le est d'un bleu d'azur, changeant en violet tendre, avec une petite raie noire, suivant le bord post rieur et une frange tr s blanche; celui des ailes de la femelle est brun, avec une rang e de taches fauves, pr s du bord post rieur, et un trait noir, sur le milieu des sup rieures. Le dessous des quatre ailes est peu pr s le m me dans les deux

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des sexes des BARBICORNES (BARBICORNIS, God.), sout s tac es et plumeuses (1); celles des Z PHYRIES (ZEPHYRIUS, Dalm.), se terminent par dix ou douze articles globuleux, s par s, ou en mani re de chapelet (2). La seconde section des l pidopt res diurnes est compos e des esp ces dont les jambes post rieures ont deux paires d' pines; savoir, une leur extr mit , et l'autre au-dessus (et de m me dans les deux familles suivantes). Les ailes inf rieures sont ordinairement horizontales dans le repos

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double rang de petites dents courtes, troites, dilat es et arrondies au bout (3) (1) Voyez, pour les autres esp ces, Fabricius, Esper, Engramelle, H bner, Donovan, Godart, etc. (2) Ajoutez: cossus terebra, Fab.; phal ne strix de Cramer; Cossus lituratus, Donov.; C. nebulosus, ejusd. (3) Stygia australis, Latr., Gener. crust. et insect., IV, 215; God., Hist. nat., des l pid. de France, III, 169, XXII, 19; voyez aussi le m [page] 39

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A914 Book: Lawrence, John. 1829. The horse in all his varieties and uses. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green. Text

SECTION XXX. p. 193. DRIVING. The author's late letter on the subject to the Sporting Magazine. Every one for himself and God for us all the devil take the hindmost. Associations recommended. The merit of certain coach proprietors and quality dragsmen. A legislative call for the general rate of twelve miles per hour. Coach racing on the roads. Accidents. Furious driving through the crowded streets of the metropolis. The author's hair-breadth escape. His funereal paragraph on speculation. Rapid

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interspersed, one of which was a frightful scarecrow god. The magnificent racing system of the Eastern Emperors, and their noble principle of compassion towards animals. The author's visit to Shaftoe's Squirrel. Racing in England traceable to the eleventh century. Prices of racers in the fourteenth. Origin of the present system in the reign of James the First, or between that and of Charles the Second. The thorough bred racer. Error of the late Dr. Parry and others. Breeds of the Levant. The Arab and

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A919.3 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3. Text

extreme quickness and acuteness of vision, and a wonderful tact in detecting a new species. His favourite pursuits were carried on under circumstances of domestic discomfort and difficulties, that would have quelled a meaner spirit, the contemplation of the works of God on the mountain top, or in the bosom of the forest, serving to soothe the sorrows of his wounded mind. In his company, and by his aid, most of the birds described in the second volume of [page] x

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rejection of idolatrous ceremonies Determination of Patii, the priest of Papetoai Idols publicly burnt at Uaeva, in Eimeo Increase of the scholars Contempt and persecution on account of the profession of Christianity Baneful influence of idolatry on social intercourse Humiliating circumstances to which its institutes reduced the female sex Happy change in domestic society, attending the introduction of Christianity Persecution of the Christians Worshippers of the true God sought as victims for