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... appear till some months after I had left for England . Under the circumstances , I may hope to be pardoned for quoting a certificate so impartial . A year or two before leaving China , I had planned three books . The first was to have ...
... appear till some months after I had left for England . Under the circumstances , I may hope to be pardoned for quoting a certificate so impartial . A year or two before leaving China , I had planned three books . The first was to have ...
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... appear in the Downing Street accounts - engaged in tak- ing illicit fees from a Chinese suitor , I turned them off ; and , with the sanction of the then Consul , Mr. Macgregor , had a printed official notice posted throughout Canton ...
... appear in the Downing Street accounts - engaged in tak- ing illicit fees from a Chinese suitor , I turned them off ; and , with the sanction of the then Consul , Mr. Macgregor , had a printed official notice posted throughout Canton ...
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... made compulsory on the appointing powers , whoever they may be , to appoint only people who had passed one or more of the Public Service Examinations . Should that hereafter appear to the country to be expedient PREFACE . XXV.
... made compulsory on the appointing powers , whoever they may be , to appoint only people who had passed one or more of the Public Service Examinations . Should that hereafter appear to the country to be expedient PREFACE . XXV.
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Thomas Taylor Meadows. Should that hereafter appear to the country to be expedient , it could , of course , easily be done by an act of the Legislature . § 5. The Provincial Executive is composed of those persons who transact the ...
Thomas Taylor Meadows. Should that hereafter appear to the country to be expedient , it could , of course , easily be done by an act of the Legislature . § 5. The Provincial Executive is composed of those persons who transact the ...
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... appear to some readers that I have projected an unnecessary amount of precautions to secure impartiality on the part of the Examiners . But it must be remembered that entrance d to the Public Offices at home , to the Diplomatic PREFACE ...
... appear to some readers that I have projected an unnecessary amount of precautions to secure impartiality on the part of the Examiners . But it must be remembered that entrance d to the Public Offices at home , to the Diplomatic PREFACE ...
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Page 93 - When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them ; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
Page 93 - And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
Page 93 - But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
Page 92 - He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism.
Page 93 - And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
Page 93 - Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands...
Page 93 - Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.
Page 93 - Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men : and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
Page 94 - So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth. And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
Page 93 - Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.