At the conclusion of the life of Mahomet, it may perhaps be expected that 1 should balance his faults and virtues, that I should decide whether the title of enthusiast or impostor more properly belongs to that extraordinary man. Had I been intimately... The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - 394 페이지저자: Edward Gibbon - 1831전체보기 - 도서 정보
| 1789 - 602 페이지
...diftance of twelve centuries, I darkly contemplate his fliade through a cjoud of religious incenfe; and could I truly delineate the portrait of an hour, the fleeting refemblance would not equally apply to the folitary of mount Hera, to the preacher of Mecca, and to... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1790 - 646 페이지
...diftance of twelve centuries, I darkly contemplate his ihade through a cloud of religious incenfe ; and could I truly delineate the portrait of an hour, the fleeting lefemblance would not equally apply to the folitary of mount Hera, ta the preacher of Mecca, and to... | |
| 1790 - 566 페이지
...diftance of twelve centuries, I darkly contemplate his fliade through a cloud of religious incenfe ; and could I truly delineate the portrait of an hour, the fleeting refemblance would not equally apply to the folitary of mount Hera, to the preacher of Mecca, and to... | |
| George Gregory - 1790 - 456 페이지
...diftance of twelve centuries, I darkly contemplate his fhade through a cloud of religious incenfe ; and could I truly delineate the portrait of an hour, the fleeting refemblance would not equally apply to the folitary of M»unt Hera, to the preacher of Mecca, and to... | |
| 1790 - 562 페이지
...diftance of twelve c?nturies, 1 darkly contemplate his ihade through a cloud of religious incenfe ; and could I truly delineate the portrait of an hour, the fleeting rcfcmblancc would not equally apply to the folitary of mount Her«, to the preacher of Mecca, and to... | |
| George Gregory - 1795 - 582 페이지
...delineate the portrait of an hour, tht fleeting refemblance would not equally apply to the fulitary of Mount Hera, to the preacher of Mecca, and to the...Arabia. — The author of a mighty revolution appears to ha*e been endowed with a pious and contemplative difpofition : fo foon as marriage had raifed him above... | |
| New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 페이지
...impostor more properly belongs to that extraordinary man. Had I been intimately conversant with the son of Abdallah, the task would still be difficult and the...could I truly delineate the portrait of an hour, the fleetingresemblance would not equally apply to the solitary of Mount Hera, to the preacher of Mecca,... | |
| New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 408 페이지
...impostor more properly belongs to that extraordinary man. Had I been intimately conversant with the son of Abdallah, the task would still be difficult and the...religious incense ; and could I truly delineate the portraitof an hour, the fleeting resemblance would not equally apply to the solitary of Mount Hera,... | |
| New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 406 페이지
...impostor more properly belongs to that extraordinary man. Had 1 been intimately conversant with the son of Abdallah, the task would still be difficult and the...religious incense ; and could I truly delineate the portraitof an hour, the fleeting resemblance would not equally apply to the solitary of Mount Hera,... | |
| 1851 - 650 페이지
...century on the Arabian peninsula. " Had I been intimately conversant," says Gibbon, " with the son of Abdallah,* the task would still be difficult, and...preacher of Mecca, and to the conqueror of Arabia." Serious scribes, and carping critics in abundance, might be found, who, in the plenitude of their sapience,... | |
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