| British and Foreign Bible Society - 1815 - 590 sivua
...individual who had it would on no account part with it. In the east, I fell in with a Clergyman, who had been seeking in vain to obtain a Bible for the long period of seventeen years! His joy on iny arrival was inexpressible. I passed also through a parish, lately, HI which there are... | |
| Andrew O'Callaghan - 1817 - 64 sivua
...informed by the Bible Society itself — " that there were only two or three Bibles in two parishes ; in one populous parish no.ne at all ; and that one...had been seeking, in vain, to obtain a Bible for the lung period of seventeen years!" What a pregnant fact is this ! The most pious, amiable, and orderly... | |
| Charles Stokes Dudley - 1821 - 620 sivua
...jtppendix, A'o. vu. " In the east of the island," says Dr. Henderson, " I fell in with a clergyman, who has been seeking in vain to obtain a Bible for the long period of icventeen years ! His joy on my arrival was inexpressible. T passed also through a parish, lately,... | |
| L. N. R. - 1854 - 522 sivua
...mountains into the beautiful valley of Eyafiord, and in that neighbourhood fell in with a clergyman who had been seeking in vain to obtain a Bible for the long period of seventeen years ! He passed through a parish in which there were only two Bibles, and another in which there were none... | |
| Ellen Henrietta Ranyard - 1857 - 560 sivua
...mountains into the beautiful valley of Eyafiord, and in that neighbourhood fell in with a. clergyman who had been seeking in vain to obtain a Bible for the long period of seventeen years ! He passed through a parish in which there were only two Bibles, and another in which there were none... | |
| World, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1870 - 834 sivua
...mountains into the beautiful valley of Eyafiord, and in that neighbourhood fell in with a clergyman who had been seeking in vain to obtain a Bible for the long period of seventeen years ! He passed through a parish in which there were only two Bibles, and another in which there were none... | |
| Walter Baxendale - 1888 - 708 sivua
...soul of the donor. 668. BIBLE, Scarcity of. In the east of Iceland I fell in with a clergyman who has been seeking in vain to obtain a Bible for the long period of seventeen years ! His joy on my arrival was inexpressible. — I passed through a parish lately in which were only... | |
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