Social History of the Races of Mankind ...Trübner & Company, 1888 |
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Página 11 - ... tinge. It is attached to the small branches of the tree by a short thick stalk, and hangs either singly or in clusters of two or three together.
Página 210 - Let us now determine what we should do with Rangi and Papa, whether it would be better to slay them or to rend them apart.' Then spoke Tu-matauenga, the fiercest of the children of Heaven and Earth: 'It is well, let us slay them.
Página 255 - The small stars, The red stars of Kane, O infinite space ! The great moon of Kane, The great sun of Kane, Moving, floating, Set moving about in the great space of Kane. The great earth of Kane, The rain-encircled earth of Kane, The earth that Kane set in motion.
Página 201 - In fact, in the accounts which the natives give of their gods, and of their exploits, we have but a magnified history of their chiefs, their wars, murders, and lusts, with the addition of some supernatural powers. They were cannibals ; they were influenced by like feelings and passions with men, and they were uniformly bad. To them were ascribed all the evils to which the human race is subject ; each disease was supposed to be occasioned by a different god, who resided in the part affected.
Página 205 - The word became fruitful; It dwelt with the feeble glimmering; It brought forth night: The great night, the long night, The lowest night, the loftiest night, The thick night to be felt, The night to be touched, the night unseen.
Página 152 - Here is ava for you, O gods! Look kindly towards this family : let it prosper and increase ; and let us all be kept in health. Let our plantations be productive; let food grow; and may there be abundance of food for us, your creatures.
Página 308 - ... of Christianity, are secured to the Native Christians, and the same protection and liberty are guaranteed to those who are not Christians. " Domestic slavery is not abolished ; but masters are at liberty to give freedom to their slaves, or to sell them to others. " No person is to be put to death for any offence, by the word of the Sovereign alone ; and no one is to be sentenced to death till twelve men have declared such person to be guilty of the crime to which the law awards the punishment...
Página 212 - ... Up to this time the vast Heaven has still ever remained separated from his spouse, the Earth. Yet their mutual love still continues; the soft, warm sighs of her loving bosom still ever rise up to him, ascending from the woody mountains and valleys, and men call these mists ; and the vast Heaven, as he mourns through the long nights his separation from his beloved, drops frequent tears upon her bosom, and men seeing these term them dew-drops.
Página 205 - Forthwith was produced the sun; They were thrown up above as the chief eyes of heaven; Then the heavens became light, The early dawn, the early day, The midday. The blaze of day from the sky.
Página 211 - And behold, it shall come to pass that my servants shall be sent forth to the east and to the west, to the north and to the south; 64.