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  • As one can guess by the title, Little Heathens is a memoir written around Millie’s childhood during the Great Depression.

    Little Heathens (copy) ____Maggie 2009

  • As one can guess by the title, Little Heathens is a memoir written around Millie’s childhood during the Great Depression.

    Archive 2009-02-01 ____Maggie 2009

  • Those reasons were, that the Bonzas of Amanguchi, having written all they could imagine, to render Xavier contemptible, it was convenient to remove those false conceptions from the people; and at the same time, to let them see how much the Christians honour their ministers of the gospel, that thereby the Heathens might be the more easily induced to give credit to them; so that the honour would reflect on Jesus Christ, and the preaching would be raised in value, according to the esteem which was given to the preacher.

    The Works of John Dryden Dryden, John, 1631-1700 1808

  • Amanguchi, having written all they could imagine, to render Xavier contemptible, it was convenient to remove those false conceptions from the people; and at the same time, to let them see how much the Christians honour their ministers of the gospel, that thereby the Heathens might be the more easily induced to give credit to them; so that the honour would reflect on Jesus Christ, and the preaching would be raised in value, according to the esteem which was given to the preacher.

    The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 16 John Dryden 1665

  • "Heathens," he called them -- this woolly one, whose race has been the butt of every comedy on the native stage since the beginning.

    American Notes Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • "Heathens," he called them -- this woolly one, whose race has been the butt of every comedy on the native stage since the beginning.

    American Notes 1889

  • The "Heathens" won 3-0 and the affair was described, in the local press, as "a pleasant game".

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • (Please refer to my comments earlier today on the "Heathens" thread.)

    Planet Atheism 2009

  • The "Heathens" won 3-0 and the affair was described, in the local press, as "a pleasant game".

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009

  • The "Heathens" won 3-0 and the affair was described, in the local press, as "a pleasant game".

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009

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