 | John Williams - 1837 - 654 sider
...commerce will entwine their tendrils around its trunk, and derive support from its strength. Until the people are brought under the influence of religion,...desire for the arts and usages of civilized life; but that invariably creates it. The Missionaries were at Tahiti many years, during which they built... | |
 | 1838 - 492 sider
...commerce will entwine their tendrils around its trunk, and derive support from its strength. Until the people are brought under the influence of religion,...no desire for the arts and usages of civilized life ; but that invariably creates it. The missionaries were at Tahiti many years, during which they built... | |
 | William Beattie - 1839 - 154 sider
...commerce will entwine their tendrils around its trunk, and derive support from its strength. Until the people are brought under the influence of religion,...no desire for the arts and usages of civilized life ; but that invariably creates it. The missionaries were at Tahiti many years, during which they built... | |
 | John Williams - 1840 - 174 sider
...their tendrils around its trunk, and derive support from its strength. Until the people are hrought under the influence of religion, they have no desire for the arts and usages of civilized life; but that invariably creates it. The Missionaries were at Tahiti many years, during which they built... | |
 | Sarah Tappan Smith - 1841 - 410 sider
...commerce will entwine their tendrils around its trunk, and derive support from its strength. Until the people are brought under the influence of religion,...desire for the arts and usages of civilized life; but that invariably creates it. The missionaries were at Tahiti many years, during which they built... | |
 | 1884 - 626 sider
...wand of missions. Rev. J. \\ illiams, a labourer who has a right to be heard, tells us, " Until the people are brought under the influence of religion...no desire for the arts and usages of civilized life ; but that invariably create* it. The missionaries were at Tahiti many years, during which they built... | |
 | Michael Russell - 1842 - 464 sider
...have extended also to commerce, manufactures, and general improvement. It is indeed manifest that, while the missionaries devoted their best energies...however, as they were brought under the influence of Christianity, the chiefs and even the common people began to erect neat cottages, and to manufacture... | |
 | John Campbell - 1842 - 562 sider
...commerce will entwine their tendrils around its trunk, and derive support from its strength. Until the people are brought under the influence of religion,...no desire for the arts and usages of civilized life ; but that invariably creates it. The missionaries were at Tahiti many years, during which they built... | |
 | 1845 - 378 sider
...maintained, with considerable force of ar* Forty-fifth Ruuort at the Missionary Society, pp. 14-10 gument, that until a people are brought under the influence...however, as they were brought under the influence of Christianity, the chiefs and even the common people began to erect neat cottages, and to manufacture'D'easteads,... | |
 | Ebenezer Prout - 1846 - 544 sider
...commerce will entwine their tendrils around its trunk, and derive support from its strength. Until the people are brought under the influence of religion, they have no desire for the art* and usages of civilized life ; but that invariably creates it. The Missionaries were at Tahiti... | |
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I am convinced that the first step towards the promotion of a nation's temporal and social elevation, is to plant amongst them the tree of life, when civilization and commerce will entwine their tendrils around its trunk, and derive support from its strength.... 
