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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Col... ...with which his friends have 5 Yo n g e kindly supplied me, portraying him from their point of view; so that I could really trust that little more was... ...ary judgment in connecting and selecting. Nor until the work is less fresh from my hand will it be possible to judge whether I have in any way been al... ...arnest wish to be a clergyman, because he thought saying the Absolution to people must make them so happy, ‘a belief he must have gleaned from his Pra... ...ng out to found a church, and then to die neglected and forgotten. All the people burst out crying, he was so very much beloved by his parishioners. H... ...g a tyrant, as so often befalls those whose skill ren- ders them valuable. Tennis became Coley’s chief recreation, enabling him to work off his superf... ...to take), and am quite as much disposed as ever to wish for a good game at tennis or fives to take it out of me. ‘Your loving Brother, ‘J. C. Patteson... ... Ysabel, called Anudha, but marked in the charts (though not correctly) as Florida. ‘It would weary you if I wrote of all the numerous adven- tures an... ...way with us, without giving me the trouble of taking a swim at all; how at Florida Island, never before reached by us, one out of some eighty men, you...

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