| James Hingston Tuckey - 1815 - 626 pagina’s
...Portuguese missions, it appears, have had but little success in converting the negroes to Christianity : nor is this to be wondered at, when it is remembered that the missionaries were bigotted monks, who instead of endeavouring to gain the confidence of the negroes... | |
| 1864 - 502 pagina’s
...that the number of Hindu women who have received any thing like an education is infinitesimally small. Nor is this to be wondered at, when it is remembered that the efforts heretofore made for their enlightenment have been isolated and not often well-directed.... | |
| New Hampshire. General Court. Senate - 1847 - 936 pagina’s
...returned during the past year ; yet many sets of the most valuable works are still broken and incomplete. Nor is this to be wondered at, when it is remembered that, heretofore, no one has been employed to take charge of the library, except during the sessions of the... | |
| John Henderson (capt. 78th Highlanders.) - 1851 - 316 pagina’s
...nothing. The children are, however, in general, VOL. n. o sufficiently initiated into all sorts of evil ; nor is this to be wondered at, when it is remembered that they are surrounded by convicts, and are frequently nursed by the worst women which the prisons of... | |
| Robert William Browne - 1853 - 516 pagina’s
...expressions are in accordance with the usage of good authors, and the construction is not without elegance. Nor is this to be wondered at when it is remembered that, at the period when this decree was published, Rome already possessed a written literature. Ennius was... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1856 - 554 pagina’s
...the excellance of the casting. In this respect they resembled American work of a similar character. Nor is this to be wondered at, when it is remembered that the best workmen in the United States in this department of industry are either Germans or Americans... | |
| Robert William Browne - 1857 - 490 pagina’s
...expressions are in accordance with the usage of good authors, and the construction is not without elegance. Nor is this to be wondered at when it is remembered that, at the period when this decree was published, Rome already possessed a written literature. Ennius was... | |
| James Richardson Logan - 1858 - 496 pagina’s
...infrequently putting to death any Burman petty official who had the temerity to approach their locations ; nor is this to be wondered at when it is remembered that the J5urrir.ni government was known to these wild races only as a remorseless tyranny, from which,... | |
| 1872 - 358 pagina’s
...on Scottish Numismatics, there are many points which are still involved in considerable obscurity. Nor is this to be wondered at, when it is remembered that the most valuable materials necessary for fully illustrating the history of the Scottish coinage are... | |
| Barclay V. Head - 1872 - 348 pagina’s
...on Scottish Numismatics, there are many points which are still involved in considerable obscurity. Nor is this to be wondered at, when it is remembered that the most valuable materials necessary for fully illustrating the history of the Scottish coinage are... | |
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