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Adam's Peak Anuradhapura arrack Badulla Batticaloa beautiful beneath blossoms blue Brahmans Buddha Buddhist bungalow carried caste catechist Ceylon chetah Christian Church clothed cocoa-nut cocoa-palm coffee Colombo colour commenced converts coolies course crag creatures dagobas dark district Dondra Head Dutch elephants estates European feet fish footprint forest Galle gems girls Government green Happily heathen Hindoo holy honour hundred India Isle Jaffna jungle Kalutara Kandy Kataragama King Kurunegalla lake land leaves light lovely Mahommedans miles Mission missionaries morning mountain native neighbours night palms pilgrims plantations planters pleasant police poor Portuguese precious priests proved Province Ratnapura recognised rest-house river rock Rodiya Roman Catholic round rupees Saami sacred scene schools secure shore shrine Singhalese sometimes Sri Pada stone strange summit Tamil tanks temple tion trees Trincomalee Veddahs village Wesleyan whole wild women worship yellow young
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Page 357 - I am the Lord; that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Page 420 - And this is life eternal, that they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
Page 313 - The sons also- of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee ; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet ; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Page 338 - My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
Page 146 - And tolls its perfume on the passing air, Makes Sabbath in the fields, and ever ringeth A call to prayer. Not to the domes where crumbling arch and column Attest the feebleness of mortal hand, But to that fane, most catholic and solemn, Which God hath planned ; To that cathedral, boundless as our wonder, Whose quenchless lamps the sun and moon supply ; Its choir the winds and waves, its organ thunder, Its dome the sky.
Page 328 - ... forty years have made a difference in this respect ; and when I ascended Adam's Peak, the villages became fewer and farther between as we increased our elevation, while our path often led us up the steep mountain-flank, through a dense jungle, as yet untouched by the hand of the foreign capitalist. We passed the night at a native house in one of the higher villages, and leaving our horses there, on the following morning pursued our way on foot amid scenery which at every step became more grand...
Page 146 - To that cathedral, boundless as our wonder, Whose quenchless lamps the sun and moon supply ; Its choir the winds and waves — its organ thunder — Its dome the sky.