Jamaica : Its Past and Present StateJ.Snow, 1843 - 487 pages |
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Page ix
... liberal and comprehensive principles , but designed especially for the education of the descendants of Africa in the higher branches of learning and science , John xvii . 21 . X PREFACE . will be found as an Appendix ,
... liberal and comprehensive principles , but designed especially for the education of the descendants of Africa in the higher branches of learning and science , John xvii . 21 . X PREFACE . will be found as an Appendix ,
Page xiii
... African Institution - Efforts for ameliorating the Condition of the Slaves- Conduct of the Jamaica House of Assembly - Insurrection or Dis- turbance in 1832 and 1833 - Its real Causes - Destruction of Mission Property - Wanton and awful ...
... African Institution - Efforts for ameliorating the Condition of the Slaves- Conduct of the Jamaica House of Assembly - Insurrection or Dis- turbance in 1832 and 1833 - Its real Causes - Destruction of Mission Property - Wanton and awful ...
Page xiv
... Africans - Peculiar Characteristics of each - Immoral Tendency of their Amusements - Funerals - Superstitions - Charac- teristic Vices - Contrast presented by the present State of Things— Description of a Funeral as now conducted ...
... Africans - Peculiar Characteristics of each - Immoral Tendency of their Amusements - Funerals - Superstitions - Charac- teristic Vices - Contrast presented by the present State of Things— Description of a Funeral as now conducted ...
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... African Institution - Of Antislavery and Agency Societies - Establishment and operation of Schools Circulation of Bibles and Tracts - Moral Influence exerted by Missionaries - Their efforts for the Improvement of the temporal xvi ...
... African Institution - Of Antislavery and Agency Societies - Establishment and operation of Schools Circulation of Bibles and Tracts - Moral Influence exerted by Missionaries - Their efforts for the Improvement of the temporal xvi ...
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... Africa , St. Domingo , and other neighbouring Islands , South America - Increased facilities which these fields of labour afford - Sympathies manifested by the Churches in Jamaica - Demand for these objects on the Chris- tian Public ...
... Africa , St. Domingo , and other neighbouring Islands , South America - Increased facilities which these fields of labour afford - Sympathies manifested by the Churches in Jamaica - Demand for these objects on the Chris- tian Public ...
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African Anne's Bay Annotto Bay appearance attended Baptist Missionary Baptist Missionary Society beautiful bless British buckra chapel character Christ Christian church circumstances civil classes colony colour concubinage considerable Court cultivation denominations districts domestic England equal especially European exhibited Falmouth feelings feet female friends Governor habits heart honour increased individual influence instances island Jamaica Kingston labour land Lord Lucea magistrates Massa Jesus master means ment minister Missionary Society Montego Bay mountains mulatto multitudes negro neighbourhood night occasion Old Harbour overseer parish peasantry persons pimento places of worship planters poor population Port Antonio Port Maria Port Morant Port Royal possession pray prayer prayer-meeting preach present Quashie religion religious respect Sabbath Savanna-la-Mar scarcely slavery slaves Sligo soul Spanish Town spirit sugar tion trees usually Wesleyan Wesleyan Association whilst white inhabitants whole writer
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Page 448 - Thus saith the Lord ; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the Lord ; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord, that thy children shall come again to their own border.
Page 360 - Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.
Page 70 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; ' The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Page 434 - Whence from such lands each pleasing science flies That first excites desire, and then supplies ; Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy, ( To fill the languid pause with finer joy ; Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame, . Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame.
Page 432 - Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
Page 450 - So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.
Page 454 - Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
Page 262 - What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise : for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; as it is written, " There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Page 399 - When one, that holds communion with the skies, Has filled his urn where these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis even as if an angel shook his wings; Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide, That tells us whence his treasures are supplied.
Page 288 - How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!