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The history of China. Upon the plan of Mr. Rollin's antient history. Containing, I. A general idea of their history. II. A Description of their Country. III. An Account of their Government. IV. Of their Commerce, Arts and Sciences. V. Of their Religion, Manners, and particular Customs. VI. A succinct description of some Kingdoms that are tributary to China. - Also the Natural History of China. To which is prefixed, an accurate map of China, drawn from Surveys made by the Jesuit Missionaries by Order of the Emperor. Translated from the French.
Date: M.DCC.LXIII. [1763]- Books
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An essay towards an instruction for the Indians; explaining the most essential doctrines of Christianity. Which may be of Use To such Christians, as have not well considered the Meaning of the Religion they profess; Or, who profess to know God, but in Works do deny Him. In several short and plain Dialogues. Together with directions and prayers for The Heathen World, Missionaries, Catechumens, Private Persons, Families, Of Parents, for their Children, For Sundays, &c. By the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas, Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man.
Wilson, Thomas, 1663-1755.Date: MDCC.XL. [1740]- Pictures
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Two missionaries gouging out the eyes of a Chinese convert. Line photoengraving, 1915.
Date: 1915Reference: 30008i- Books
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Instructions for missionaries to the West-India islands.
Philanthropic Society (London, England)Date: 1795- Books
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Propagation of the Gospel in the east: being an account of the success of two Danish missionaries, lately sent to the East-Indies, for the conversion of the heathens in Malabar. In several letters to their correspondents in Europe. Containing A Narrative of their Voyage to the Coast of Coromandel, their Settlement at Tranquebar, the Divinity and Philosophy of the Malabarians, their Language and Manners, the Impediments obstructing their Conversion, the several Methods taken by these Missionaries, the wonderful Providences attending them, and the Progress they have already made. Rendered into English from the High-Dutch: And Dedicated to the most Honourable Corporation for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. Part 1.
Ziegenbalg, Bartholomaeus, 1683-1719.Date: 1718- Books
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Propagation of the Gospel in the East: part II. Containing a further account of the progress made by some missionaries to Tranquebar, upon the coast of Coromandel for the conversion of the Malabarians; Of the Methods by them taken, for the effecting of this great Work; of the Obstructions they meet with in it; and of the Proposals which they make. Together with Some Observations relating to the Malabarian Philosophy and Divinity: And concerning their Bramans, Pantares, and Poets. Translated and extracted from the original letters of the said Missionaries lately arrived: And most humbly Recommended to the Consideration of the most Honourable Corporation for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
Ziegenbalg, Bartholomaeus, 1683-1719.Date: 1710- Pictures
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A cannibal market trader is offering the limbs of missionaries for sale as food. Drawing attributed to Edwin Harcourt Burrage, 18--.
Burrage, E. Harcourt (Edwin Harcourt)Date: 1800-1899Reference: 572947i- Books
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The knowledge and practice of Christianity made easy to the meanest capacities: or, an essay towards an instruction for the Indians; Which will likewise be of Use To all such who are called Christians, but have not well considered the Meaning of the Religion they profess: Or, who profess to know God, but in Works do deny Him. In Twenty Dialogues. Together with directions and prayers, for The Heathen World, Missionaries, Catechumens, Private Persons, Families, Of Parents for their Children, For Sundays, &c. The eleventh edition. By the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas, Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man.
Wilson, Thomas, 1663-1755.Date: M.DCC.LXX. [1770]- Books
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The knowledge and practice of Christianity made easy to the meanest capacities: or, an essay towards an instruction for the Indians; Which will likewise be of Use To all such who are called Christians, but have not well considered the Meaning of the Religion they profess: Or, who profess to know God, but in Works do deny Him. In Twenty Dialogues. Together with directions and prayers, for The Heathen World, Missionaries, Catechumens, Private Persons, Families, Of Parents for their Children, For Sundays, &c. The tenth edition. By the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas, Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man
Wilson, Thomas, 1663-1755.Date: M.DCC.LXIV. [1764]- Books
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The knowledge and practice of Christianity made easy to the meanest capacities: or, an essay towards an instruction for the Indians. Which will likewise be of Use To all such who are called Christians, but have not well considered the Meaning of the Religion they profess: Or, who profess to know God, but in Works do deny Him. In twenty dialogues. Together with Directions and Prayers, for The Heathen World, Missionaries, Catechumens, Private Persons, Families, Of Parents for their Children, For Sundays, &c. The fifteenth edition. By the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas, Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man.
Wilson, Thomas, 1663-1755.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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The knowledge and practice of Christianity made easy to the meanest capacities: or, an essay towards an instruction for the indians; Which will likewise be of Use To all such who are called Christians, but have not well considered the Meaning of the Religion they profess: Or, who profess to know God, but in Works do deny Him. In Twenty Dialogues. Together with directions and prayers, for The Heathen World, Missionaries, Catechumens, Private Persons, Families, Of Parents for their Children, For Sundays, &c. The twelfth edition. By the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas, Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man.
Wilson, Thomas, 1663-1755.Date: M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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The knowledge and practice of Christianity made easy to the meanest capacities: or, an essay towards an instruction for the indians; Which will be of Use To such Christians, as have not well considered the Meaning of the Religion they profess; Or, who profess to know God, but in Works do deny Him. In several short and plain Dialogues. Together with directions and prayers for The Heathen World, Missionaries, Catechumens, Private Persons, Families, Of Parents for their Children, For Sundays, &c. The second edition, with additions; and corrected throughout. By the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas, Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man.
Wilson, Thomas, 1663-1755.Date: M.DCC.XLI. [1741]- Books
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The knowledge and practice of Christianity made easy to the meanest capacities: or, an essay towards an instruction for the Indians. Which will likewise be of Use To all such who are called Christians, but have not well considered the Meaning of the Religion they profess: Or, who profess to know God, but in Works to deny Him. In Twenty Dialogues. Together with Directions and Prayers, for The Heathen World, Missionaries, Catechumens, Private Persons, Families, Of Parents for their Children, For Sundays, &c. The fourteenth edition. By the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas, Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man.
Wilson, Thomas, 1663-1755.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Pictures
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Canton, China: a missionary church and missionaries' houses. Photograph, 18--.
Date: [18-]Reference: 665294i- Books
Shamans, lamas, and evangelicals : the English missionaries in Siberia / C.R. Bawden.
Bawden, Charles R. (Charles Roskelly), 1924-2016Date: 1985- Books
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Report of the Medical Committee with regard to the propriety of sending out missionaries to Old Calabar direct from this country.
Date: [1854]- Books
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The knowledge and practice of Christianity made easy to the meanest capacities: or, an essay towards an instruction for the Indians; Which will be of Use To such Christians, as have not well considered the Meaning of the Religion they profess; Or, who profess to know God, but in Works do deny Him. In several short and plain Dialogues. Together with directions and prayers for The Heathen World, Missionaries, Catechumens, Private Persons, Families. Of Parents for their Children, For Sundays, &c. The fourth edition, with large Additions, and Corrected throughout. By the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas, Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man.
Wilson, Thomas, 1663-1755.Date: M.DCC.XLIII. [1743]- Books
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A court lady's curiosity; or, the virgin undress'd. Curiously surveying herself in her glass, with one leg upon her toilet. A Chinese novel: by a facetious Florentine, who accompanied the Tuscan Missionaries into China, and lived five Years at Pekin, the Capital of the Kingdom. Formerly translated from the Italian; and dedicated to the beau monde; by a young English nobleman. And now adapted to the Taste of the Town, by an Officer of Distinction in the Army. With a curious frontispiece, representing the Posture this Beautiful Chinese Lady was surprized in by Her Lover; and the Artifice he made Use of to accomplish his Design upon her.
Date: MDCCXLI. [1741]- Pictures
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Three vignettes: a group of people with leprosy, two missionaries and a leper asylum. Reproduction of a wood engraving by R.B.
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Indian missionaries in the land of gold / by Upendra Thakur.
Thakur, Upendra.Date: 1986- Books
Dr Livingstone, I presume? : missionaries, journalists, explorers and empire / Clare Pettitt.
Pettitt, Clare.Date: 2007- Books
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The memoirs of the present Countess of Derby, rescued by truth from the assassinating pen of Petronius Arbiter; and proving the stage, from the patronage of the most exalted personages, to have been always considered as a school for morality. The K- The Q- Louis XII. Louis XIII. Earl D-y Lord Ch-n-r Lord St-y Moliere The Christ. Missionaries Julius Caesar Empress of Russia Dutchess D- Scipio Africanus Duke of P-r-a Sophocles Euripides Plato Mr. W-d-d Augustus Caesar Dionysius Prince Dei-h-n Bishop Tr-i-no Cardinal B-na Cardinal M-s-n Cardinal R-l-u Corncille An Edict in France, &c. By Scriptor Veritatis.
Scriptor veritatis.Date: 1797- Books
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The memoirs of the present Countess of Derby, Rescued by truth from the Assassinating pen of Petronius Arbiter; and proving the stage, from the patronage of the most exalted personages, to have been always considered as a school for morality. The K- The Q- Louis XII. Louis XIII. Earl D-y Lord Ch-n-r Lord St-y Moliere The Christ. Missionaries Julius Caesar Empress of Russia Dutchess D- Scipio Africanus Duke of P-r-a Sophocles Euripides Plato Mr. W-d-d Augustus Caesar Dionysius Prince Dei-h-n Bishop Tr-i-no Cardinal B-na Cardinal M-s-n Cardinal R-l-u Corncille An Edict in France, &c. By scriptor veritatis.
Scriptor veritatis.Date: 1797- Archives and manuscripts
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Letters to Benjamin Hobson MD from other correspondents, including leading missionaries
Date: 1843-1862Reference: MS.5839Part of: Morrison and Hobson Families- Books
Fathers of botany : the discovery of Chinese plants by European missionaries / Jane Kilpatrick.
Kilpatrick, JaneDate: 2014