The History of the Saracens: Comprising the Lives of Mohammed and His Successors...Bell, 1875 - 512 pagina's |
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Pagina xix
... rest satisfied with the best account we can get . " However , that author consults his own reputation , and his readers ' satisfac- tion most , who does not indifferently set down everything he meets with , but uses as much caution as ...
... rest satisfied with the best account we can get . " However , that author consults his own reputation , and his readers ' satisfac- tion most , who does not indifferently set down everything he meets with , but uses as much caution as ...
Pagina xxii
... rest of mankind . For this reason no one ought to wonder if I have accommodated my style to the humour of the people of whom I write . To write of men in their circumstances , who were all humorists , bigots , and enthusiasts , in the ...
... rest of mankind . For this reason no one ought to wonder if I have accommodated my style to the humour of the people of whom I write . To write of men in their circumstances , who were all humorists , bigots , and enthusiasts , in the ...
Pagina xxiv
... rest . I confess that a history without politics comes into the world in very unfashionable circumstances , especially in a generation wherein , if fortune had not envied our merit , we should all have been plenipotentiaries ...
... rest . I confess that a history without politics comes into the world in very unfashionable circumstances , especially in a generation wherein , if fortune had not envied our merit , we should all have been plenipotentiaries ...
Pagina 12
... rest of the chapter has no connexion with the beginning , but is taken up in upbraiding and threatening one of his enemies , supposed to be Abu Jehel . you say , Kadija , is true , for the 12 A. D. 611 LIFE OF MOHAMMED .
... rest of the chapter has no connexion with the beginning , but is taken up in upbraiding and threatening one of his enemies , supposed to be Abu Jehel . you say , Kadija , is true , for the 12 A. D. 611 LIFE OF MOHAMMED .
Pagina 24
... rest of the heavens ; and among them one , a very extra- ordinary angel , who had 70,000 heads , and in every head 70,000 mouths , in every mouth 70,000 tongues , and every tongue uttering 10,000 distinct voices , with which he was day ...
... rest of the heavens ; and among them one , a very extra- ordinary angel , who had 70,000 heads , and in every head 70,000 mouths , in every mouth 70,000 tongues , and every tongue uttering 10,000 distinct voices , with which he was day ...
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Pagina 263 - I have taken (said Amrou to the caliph) the great city of the west. It is impossible for me to enumerate the variety of its riches and beauty ; and I shall content myself with observing, that it contains four thousand palaces, four thousand baths, four hundred theatres or places of amusement, twelve thousand shops for the sale of vegetable food, and forty thousand tributary Jews. The town has been subdued by force of arms, without treaty or capitulation, and the Moslems are impatient to seize the...