| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1789 - 424 pages
...diflance of twelve penturics , 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 mount Hera, to the preacher of Mecca, and to... | |
| English poetry - 1789 - 602 pages
...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 - History - 1790 - 646 pages
...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... | |
| History - 1790 - 566 pages
...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... | |
| History - 1790 - 562 pages
...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 - 1790 - 456 pages
...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... | |
| George Gregory - Church history - 1795 - 582 pages
...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... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 488 pages
...precept. The doctors are divided which, of Mecca and Medina, be the most excellent (p. 391 — 394). success uncertain : at the distance of twelve centuries....could I truly delineate the portrait of an hour, the leeting resemblance would not equally apply to the solitary of mount Hera, to the preacher of Mecca,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1820 - 528 pages
...properly belongs to that extraordinary man. Had I been intimately conversant with the son of Abdallah, the task would still be difficult, and the success...contemplate his shade through a cloud of religious incense; ° The Greeks and Latin* have invented and propagated the vulgar and ridiculous story that Mabomet's... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 540 pages
...properly belongs to that extraordinary man. Had I been intimately conversant with the son of Abdallah, the task would still be difficult, and the success...contemplate his shade through a cloud of religious n The Greeks and Latins have invented and propagated the vulgar and ridiculous story lhat Mahomet's... | |
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