| 1840 - 480 páginas
...that, through his goodness and power, he has furnished us for our food. This idea was too abstruse for the Arafuras ; for one of them answered, ' Then,...feel happier than when I have drunk plenty of it.' " — Kolffs Voyages, fyc. REMARKABLE CYPRESS — Perhaps the oldest tree of which there is any record... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - 800 páginas
...which, through his goodness and power, he has furnished us for our food. This idea was too abstruse for the Arafuras; for one of them answered — ' Then...happier than when I have drunk plenty of it.'" It is, however, only among men in the most uncultivated state, while their intellectual faculties are so feeble... | |
| 1840 - 594 páginas
...was a God who had made everything, and who was everywhere. " This idea," says Bik, " was too abstruse for the Arafuras ; for one of them answered — '...feel happier than when I have drunk plenty of it.' " And yet Lieutenant Kolff says, " It is certainly worthy of remark, that these simple Arafuras, without... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - 1841 - 346 páginas
...which, through his goodness and power, he has furnished us for our food. This idea was too abstruse for the Arafuras ; for one of them answered — ' Then this God is certainly in yqur arrack, for I never feel happier than when I have drunk plenty of it." It is, however, only among... | |
| Henry Allon - 1865 - 574 páginas
...that he was present everywhere, and that his influence pervaded everything, ' then,' said one of them, 'this God is certainly in your arrack, for I never...feel ' happier than when I have drunk plenty of it.' The greatest impediments to the reception of a religion are not those which attach to it as an intellectual... | |
| Adolf Bastian - 1868 - 524 páginas
...„every where present; in plants etc.", meinte ein Wafura: „Then this God is certainly in your arrak, for I never feel happier, than when I have drunk plenty of it" (s. Earle). **) Tod wurde allgemein, weil „the children of the first man did not dig him up again,... | |
| James Bonwick - 1870 - 364 páginas
...missionaries that God was everywhere, and in everything that is for our good, one of them replied, " Then this God is certainly in your arrack, for I never...feel happier than when I have drunk plenty of it." Sir John Lubbock has somewhere written : " Religion appeals so strongly to the hopes and fears of men,... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1877 - 850 páginas
...Islander) who, when told about the Cliritt.iiin God, said — "Then this God is certainly in your nrraok, for I never feel happier than when I have drunk plenty of it." May we not hence expect certain derivative beliefs respecting plants which yield intoxicating liquors... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1896 - 918 páginas
...definitely expressed by the Arafura (Papuan Islander) who, when told about the Christian God, said — " Then this God is certainly in your arrack, for I never feel happif-r than when I have drunk plenty of it." May we not hence expect certain derivative beliefs respecting... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1910 - 916 páginas
...definitely expressed by the Arafura (Papuan Islander) who, when told about the Christian God, said — • " Then this God is certainly in your arrack, for I never feel happier than when 1 have drunk plenty of it." May we not hence expect certain derivative beliefs respecting plants which... | |
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