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... Suttees ' Cry to Britain ; con- taining Extracts from Essays published in India , and Parlia- mentary Papers on the Burning of Hindoo Widows ; showing that the Rite is not an Integral Part of the Religion of the Hindoos , but a horrid ...
... Suttees ' Cry to Britain ; con- taining Extracts from Essays published in India , and Parlia- mentary Papers on the Burning of Hindoo Widows ; showing that the Rite is not an Integral Part of the Religion of the Hindoos , but a horrid ...
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... Suttees , and other cruel and abominable practices in India has been brought before the public of Great Britain . We are sorry to remark that it has not commanded that attention to which we think its importance is entitled ; or that the ...
... Suttees , and other cruel and abominable practices in India has been brought before the public of Great Britain . We are sorry to remark that it has not commanded that attention to which we think its importance is entitled ; or that the ...
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... Suttees for the year 1815 , dated 23rd July , 1816 . " After reporting a successful inter- position of authority in forbidding an il- legal sacrifice , he adds she was thereby saved from meditated self - destruction , without any ...
... Suttees for the year 1815 , dated 23rd July , 1816 . " After reporting a successful inter- position of authority in forbidding an il- legal sacrifice , he adds she was thereby saved from meditated self - destruction , without any ...
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... Suttees may be abolished . His speech , however , is not limited to this species of cruelty ; it extends also to the system which is pursued at Juggernaut , and various other cruel practices of that bloody superstition . Of these he ...
... Suttees may be abolished . His speech , however , is not limited to this species of cruelty ; it extends also to the system which is pursued at Juggernaut , and various other cruel practices of that bloody superstition . Of these he ...
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... suttees and the tax of Juggernaut , we trust there will speedily be addressed to the Legislature of this country , such a declaration of the public Christian mind of the land , as will compel the adoption of mea- sures , dictated not ...
... suttees and the tax of Juggernaut , we trust there will speedily be addressed to the Legislature of this country , such a declaration of the public Christian mind of the land , as will compel the adoption of mea- sures , dictated not ...
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Page 457 - When I say unto the wicked, thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Page 631 - Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. 16. They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
Page 290 - Walk about Zion, and go round about her : Tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, Consider her palaces ; That ye may tell it to the generation following : For this God is our God for ever and ever : He will be our guide even unto death.
Page 123 - Howbeit the Most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands ; as saith the prophet, Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool : what house will ye build me ? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest? Hath not my hand made all these things?
Page 295 - This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
Page 284 - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings ! and ye would not...
Page 235 - Sound speech, that cannot be condemned ; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
Page 146 - God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; by pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left...
Page 295 - For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; From heaven did the Lord behold the earth; To hear the groaning of the prisoner; To loose those that are appointed to death ; To declare the name of the Lord in Zion, And his praise in Jerusalem; When the people are gathered together, And the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.
Page 241 - ... godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of that which is to come.