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Huahine Intercourse between the priest and the god Augury by the death of victims Divination for the detection of theft Page 219 to 241. CHAP. IX. Increased desire for books Application from the blind Account of Hiro, an idolatrous priest Methods of distributing the Scriptures Dangerous voyages Motives influencing to desires for the Scriptures Character of the translation Cause of delay in baptizing the converts General view of the ordinance Baptism of the king Preparatory instructions First baptism

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THE SABBATH. For a man to work on the Sabbath is a great crime before God. Work that cannot be deferred, such as dressing food when a sick person desires warm or fresh food, this it is right to do; but not such work as erecting houses, building canoes, cultivating land, catching fish, and every other employment that can be deferred. Let none travel about to a long distance on the Sabbath. For those who desire to hear a preacher on the day of food (the preceding day) it is proper to travel. If

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. If the proprietor of the land desire that he may be tried, he shall be tried, and punished with labour. For food stolen from a garden for the owner of the enclosure he shall perform labour, such as erecting a fence, the length being regulated by the value of the food stolen. But if it was food growing, or unenclosed, he shall make forty fathoms of road, or four fathoms of stonework. XXVI. CONCERNING REVENUE FOR THE KING AND GOVERNORS. Every land that has received the word of God, and those that

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

life and that of my son I consider especially in danger, my being in the cabin next to him, and he having conveyed loaded fire-arms into his room for some purpose unknown. Captain Dillon ought now to be confined in his cabin and take medicine, and be bled and purged, otherwise I fear his malady will increase and become permanent; and this I declare, before God, to be my solemn opinions communicated to you. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, (Signed) R. TYTLER, M. D. H. C. Ship Research, at

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surface of the primaries, in some specimens these appear not silvered. In the smaller specimen the marginal band of the primaries is nearly black, the tawny colour being nearly evanescent. (408) 4. ARGYNNIS FREYA. Freya Argymis. Argynnis Freya. God. Encycl. Method. ix, 273, 37. Papilio Freya. Hubn. Schmett. 2, 13, t. x, f. 55, t. xi, f. 560. Herbst. Schmett. x, 129, t. cclxxii, f. 7 10. Thunb. Diss. Ins. Suec. iii, 49, t. v, f. 14. Schmeid. Mag. i, 420. Illig. Mag. i, 452, iii, 195. Ochs. Schmett. i

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; underneath, at the base they are brown-black, inscribed with black transverse wavy lines, and the brown part is edged with a black line; towards the posterior margin the brown of the wings is paler and marbled, so as to form a broad marginal sinuated band. (411) 3. VANESSA ANTIOPA. Antiopa Vanessa. Vanessa Antiopa. Kirb. and Sp. Introd. to Ent. iv, 499. Steph. Haustell. i, 45, 5. Jerm. Butt. 68, 113. Sam. Comp. 238, 3. Leach E. E. ix, 128. Curtis Brit. Ins. ii, t xcvi. God. Lepidopt. i, 5, 1. Lat

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CLXXXII. Genus CYNTHIA. Fabr. (413) 1. CYNTHIA CARDUI. (Fabricius.) Cynthia of the Thistle. Cynthia Cardui. Kirb. and Sp. Introd. to Ent. ii, 437, iii, 458, 460. Jerm. Butt. 66, 109. Steph. Illustr. Ilaustell. i, 47, 1. Brit. Butt. 19, t. xi. Dun. (Nat. Lib. Ent. iii, 174,) t. xix, f. 2. Vanessa Cardui. God. Lepidopt. i, 5, 2; Encycl. Method. t. liv. 1. Lat. Crust. Arachn. et Ins. ii, 380, 3. Meig. Schmett. ii, 73, 1, t. xvii, f. 1. Libythea Cardui. Lam. An. sans Vert br. iv, 29, 5. Papilio

A6560.1    Beagle Library:     Kotzebue, Otto von. 1830. A new voyage round the world, in the years 1823-1826. 2 vols. London: Henry Colburn.   Text   PDF

much painted, holding bellows, to represent the Winds ready to produce a raging whirlwind at the nod of their ruler. The God seemed in a very ill humour, till at the appearance of a three-masted ship, made of some planks nailed together, his visage suddenly cleared. The crew of the vessel, which was in full sail, pointed to the Cape, and appeared to rejoice in the expectation of doubling it safely. Then did the God Horn give the ominous nod, and the bellows began to work. The ship took in her

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They believed in one supreme God, Athua-rahai, creator and governor of the world, and of all other gods. They gave him a consort, who however was not of the same nature, but of a material and very firm substance, and therefore called O-te-Papa, that is to say, Rock. From this pair proceeded a goddess of the moon, the gods of the stars, the winds, and the sea, and the protecting deities of the several islands. After the chief god had created the sun, he conveyed his consort, the mighty Rock

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 the harsh treatment they had endured from the fire-god. Rono, enraged at this intelligence, threw the fire-god into the crater Kairuo, on the side of the mountain Mou-na-roa, where he still chafes in vain. The men now lived tranquilly on O Wahi, increased in numbers, and sought, by great sacrifices, to prove their love and thankfulness to their protector, Etua-Rono. To his honour were established the solemn yearly games called Makahiti, in which whoever obtained the victory in running

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time; but, I believe the pleasures of heaven are mentioned more distinctly than you allow in the sacred writings. I think, I remember that the saints are said to be crowned with palms and amaranths, and that they are described as perpetually hymning and praising God. AMB. This is evidently only metaphorical; music is the sensual pleasure which approaches nearest to an intellectual one, and probably may represent the delight resulting from the perception of the harmony of things and of truth

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breathes into it the breath of life, his own essence. Then our Saviour has said, of the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob. He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. St. Paul has described the clothing of the spirit in a new and glorious body, taking the analogy from the living germ in the seed of the plant, which is not quickened till after apparent death; and the catastrophe of our planet, which, it is revealed, is to be destroyed and purified by fire, before it is fitted for the

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; also before God, Te Atua; sometimes o, which then appears to be an article; as, O Pomare, O Huaheine, O Tahaiti. Sometimes this o is placed before the personal pronouns in the nominative case. O vau, I; o oe, thou; o oia, she, he, it. In these pronouns the Tahaitian, and those languages to which it bears affinity, are particularly [page]  22

A805    Beagle Library:     Mackintosh, James. 1830. The history of England. London: Lardner (Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia). vol. 1.   Text

death was fast approaching, show this flag of the dead to the array, and tell them that the lord of the East could bring nothing but a single garment to the grave. Honor the greatest of Beings, said he to his son, and obey his commandments; for he is the root of good, and in him is all our weal. Spill no blood; for it will one day reach thy head. Preserve the hearts of thy subjects by loving care; for they are intrusted to thee by God. Hate no one; for all are your fellow-mortals. If thou hast

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 but sometimes stealing at night into their habitations, and killing the sleepers, whose hearts and entrails he devoured. This belief in ghosts is perhaps not more universal in Tahaiti than among civilized nations. According to another of Cook's companions, the supreme God united departed souls with his own existence, which was signified by the phrase, He eats them. This was purification, after which the soul, or the genius, reached the abode of eternal happiness. If a man, for some months

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had also acquired some knowledge of Japan, from a Japanese ship wrecked on their coast. They acknowledged no chief, but lived in perfect independence, which they considered as their highest good. Besides the supreme God Kutka, they had a host of inferior deities, installed by their imaginations in the forests, the mountains, and the floods. They adored them when their wishes were fulfilled, and insulted them when their affairs went amiss; like the lower class of Italians, who, when any disaster

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 always treated with the greatest friendship) had a great desire for knowledge, an admirable natural understanding and a vivacity of mind seldom met with amongst uncultivated nations. He made innumerable inquiries concerning our manners and customs, our King, our form of government, the population and produce of our country, and the manner in which our ships and houses were built. He wished to know if we waged wars, with whom, and for what cause, what God we worshipped, and many other things

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Wahi, which was inhabited by the revered god Pelai. It has already been mentioned, that the women were prohibited from eating many kinds of food; they were also forbidden, under pain of death, to enter a house where the men were eating, and they were entirely secluded from the Marais; with these exceptions, they enjoyed great freedom, and even had a voice in the deliberations concerning war and peace. The religious regulation of the Tabu, or interdict, existed here as well as on many other of

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she could not restrain her tears, in speaking of his death. The people, said she, have lost in him a protector and a father. What will now be the fate of these islands, the God of the Christians only knows. She now informed me with much self-gratulation that she was a Christian, and attended the prayer-meeting several times every day. Desirous to know how far she had been instructed in the religion she professed, I inquired through Marini the grounds of her conversion. She replied that she

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would have found prophecies which have been amply verified; and the foundation or the ruin of a kingdom, which appears in civil history so great an event, in the history of man, in his religious institutions, as comparatively of small moment; you would have found the establishment of the worship of one God amongst a despised and contemned people as the most important circumstance in the history of the early world; you would have found the Christian dispensation naturally arising out of the

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gradations of the states of society, from that in which man is scarcely removed above the brute, to that in which he appears approaching in his nature to a divine intelligence. Besides, reason being the noblest gift of God to man, I can hardly suppose that an infinitely powerful and all wise Creator would bestow upon the early inhabitants of the globe a greater proportion of instinct than was at first necessary to preserve their existence, and that he would not leave the great progress of

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, there is no conception approaching to the sublimity of that of Anaxagoras, who called God the Intelligence or vous; he appears always, on the contrary, like the genii of Arabian romance, living in clouds, descending on mountains, urging his chosen people to commit the most atrocious crimes, to destroy all the races not professing the same worship and to exterminate even the child and the unborn infant. Then, I find in the Old Testament no promise of a spiritual Messiah, but only of a temporal

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moral scheme of religion and its fitness for the nature of man, I find it impossible to believe the primary doctrines on which this scheme is founded. You make the divine mind, the creator of infinite worlds, enter into the form of a man born of a virgin, you make the eternal and immortal God, the victim of shameful punishment and suffering death on the cross, recovering his life after three days and carrying his maimed and lacerated body into the heaven of heavens. AMB. You like all other sceptics

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Jews, you will allow, was established by God himself and delivered to Moses from the seat of his glory amongst storms, thunder and lightnings on Mount Sinai; why should this law, if pure and divine, have been overturned by the same being who established it? And all the ceremonies of the Hebrews have been abolished by the first Christians. AMB. I deny that the divine law of Moses was abolished by Christ, who himself says I came to confirm the law, not to destroy it. And, the Ten Commandments form

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sudden, turned the subject, much to my surprise, to the destruction of the French in Russia, and in an exceedingly low tone of voice, as if afraid of being overheard, he said, The nefas has long been triumphant over the fas, but I do not doubt that the balance of things is even now restoring, that God will vindicate his church, clear his polluted altars and establish society upon its permanent basis of justice and faith; we shall meet again, adieu! and he gave me his paternal blessing. It was