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" At the edge of the first precipice that bounds the sunken plain, many of her followers and companions lost courage and turned back : at the second, the rest earnestly entreated her to desist from her dangerous enterprise, and forbear to tempt the powerful... "
Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands, in the Years 1824-1825 - Page 179
by George Anson Byron Baron Byron - 1826 - 260 pages
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The Christian Advocate, Volume 5

Presbyterianism - 1827 - 566 pages
...the island, that God is God alone, and that the false subordinate deities existed only in the fancy of their weak adorers. Thus determined, and accompanied...her own vassals and those of other chiefs, ascended 1'eli. At the edge of the first precipice that bounds the sunken plain, many of her followers and companions...
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The Christian Journal, and Literary Register, Volume 11

1827 - 394 pages
...was, that the gods of the islands resided in these fires,) convince the inhabitants of the islands, that God is God alone, and that the false subordinate deities existed only in the fancier. of their weak adorers. Thus determined, and accompanied by a missionary; she, with part of...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1828 - 852 pages
...the islands resided in these fires,) con>vince the inhabitants of the islands that God is God »lone, and that the false subordinate deities existed only...with part of her family and a number of followers, ascended Pel! (the mountain) : at the edge of the first precipice that bounds the sunken plain, many...
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The Christian Observer, Volumes 26-27

Religion - 1828 - 852 pages
...was, that the gods of the islands resided in these fires,) convince the inhabitants of the islands that God is God alone, and that the false subordinate...Thus determined, and accompanied by a missionary, .-he, with part of her family and a number of followers, ascended Peli (the mountain) : at the edge...
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Olive Branch, Volume 1

Universalism - 1828 - 396 pages
...that God is God alone, and that the false •I'iiordinnto deities existed only in the fancies oftheir weak adorers. Thus determined, and accompanied by...with part of her family, and a number of followers, ascended Pell, (the mountain ;) at the edge of the first precipice that bounds the sunken plain : many...
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The Spirit of the English Magazines

1827 - 504 pages
...belief was, that the gods of the islands resided in these fires) convince the inhabitants of the islands that God is God alone, and that the false subordinate...with part of her family and a number of followers, ascended Peli (the mountain) ; at the edge of the first precipice that bounds the sunken plain, many...
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Spirit of the English Magazines

1827 - 996 pages
...belief was, that the gods of the islands resided in these fires) convince the inhabitants of the islands that God is God alone, and that the false subordinate...accompanied by a missionary, she, with part of her family anda number of followers, ascended Peli (the mountain) ; at the edge of the first precipice that bounds...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 1

1833 - 310 pages
...inhabitants of the island that Jehovah is the one true God, and that Peli existed only in the fancy of her weak adorers. Thus determined, and accompanied by a missionary, she, with part of her family and a crowd of followers, ascended the mountain. At the edge of the first precipice which bounds the sunken...
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The World of Waters; Or, A Peaceful Progress O'er the Unpathed Sea

Fanny Osborne - Geography - 1852 - 394 pages
...false and subordinate deities existed only in the fancies of their ignorant adorers. Thus detcrmined, and accompanied by a missionary, she, with part of...of followers, both of her own vassals, and those of oilier chief's. ascended Pel! At the edge of the first precipice that bounds the sunken plain, many...
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A Bishop in the Rough

John Sheepshanks - Asia - 1909 - 446 pages
...alone, and that the false deities of their mythology existed only in the fancies of their credulous adorers. "Thus determined, and accompanied by a missionary,...her own vassals and those of other chiefs, ascended Kilauea. At the edge of the first precipice that bounds the sunken plain many of her followers and...
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