The Life of Mohammed: Founder of the Religion of Islam, and of the Empire of the Saracens, Volume 2J. & J. Harper, 1833 - 261 pages |
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... spirit , piquancy , and , we venture to add , wit ; while , like the epistles of Cicero , they not unfrequently rise from the most familiar colloquial ease and free dom into far loftier regions of thought and eloquence . We were particu ...
... spirit , piquancy , and , we venture to add , wit ; while , like the epistles of Cicero , they not unfrequently rise from the most familiar colloquial ease and free dom into far loftier regions of thought and eloquence . We were particu ...
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... desideratum in our language - one which is beginning to be more sensibly felt than ever , and which the spirit of the age loudly requires to have supplied . How far the present sketch may go towards meeting the demand A 2.
... desideratum in our language - one which is beginning to be more sensibly felt than ever , and which the spirit of the age loudly requires to have supplied . How far the present sketch may go towards meeting the demand A 2.
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... spirit of equity and kindness ; yet the pagan Arabs , previous to his time , as we learn from Eastern writers , were wont to treat widows and or phans with great injustice , frequently denying them any share in the inheritances of their ...
... spirit of equity and kindness ; yet the pagan Arabs , previous to his time , as we learn from Eastern writers , were wont to treat widows and or phans with great injustice , frequently denying them any share in the inheritances of their ...
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... spirits which had inhabited the moon and stars were expelled together from their celes- tial abodes , nor could they ever after animate idols or deliver oracles on earth . The child also , if we may trust to the same authorities ...
... spirits which had inhabited the moon and stars were expelled together from their celes- tial abodes , nor could they ever after animate idols or deliver oracles on earth . The child also , if we may trust to the same authorities ...
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... Eastern author , that Cadijah ever rejected her husband's pretences as delusions , or suspected him of any imposture . " - Prelim . Disc . a . 58 , nate . 99 * 66 descend , and the spirit Gabriel also LIFE OF MOHAMMED . 51.
... Eastern author , that Cadijah ever rejected her husband's pretences as delusions , or suspected him of any imposture . " - Prelim . Disc . a . 58 , nate . 99 * 66 descend , and the spirit Gabriel also LIFE OF MOHAMMED . 51.
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Page 195 - And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months; and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
Page 202 - For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
Page 189 - And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
Page 202 - And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron ; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. 10. And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails, and their power was to hurt men five months.
Page 175 - But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
Page 235 - That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables ; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
Page 189 - Shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, And His strength, and His wonderful works that He hath done.
Page 195 - And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth, and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit ; .and he opened the bottomless pit. And there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth, and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power...
Page 195 - And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
Page 190 - I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.