 | 1832 - Počet stránok 852
...the fourth year that he ventured publicly to assume the prophetic office He persevered ten years more in the exercise of his mission ; and the religion which has overspread the East and West advanced with a slow and painful progress within the walls of Mecca." The soldiers of Mohammed... | |
 | Oxford univ, prize poems - 1810 - Počet stránok 204
...Thunders peal, And yawning Hell his last abyss reveal, u "If they shmilil place the sun on my right hauil, and " the moon on my left, they should not divert me from my " course." Gibbon's Rom. Emp. vol. ix. p. 385. Back would he shrink, but still right onward bear, And draw new... | |
 | University of Oxford - 1810 - Počet stránok 186
...Thunders peal, And yawning Hell his last abyss reveal, 1' " If they should place the sun on my right hand, and " the moon on my left, they should not divert me from my " course." Gibbon's Rom. Emp. vol. ix. p. 265. Back would he shrink, but still right onward bear, And draw new... | |
 | William Paley - 1810 - Počet stránok 436
...years were silently employed in the conversion of fourteen proselytes. 'For ten years, the religion advanced with a slow and painful progress, within the walls of Mecca. The number of proselytes in the seventh year of his mission may be estimated by the absence of eighty-three... | |
 | William Paley - 1811 - Počet stránok 416
...years were silently employed in the conversion of fourteen proselytes. For ten years, the religion advanced with a slow and painful progress, within the walls of Mecca. The number of proselytes in the seventh year of bis mission may be estimated by the absence of eighty-three... | |
 | 1814 - Počet stránok 670
...reclin'd, He caught the moanings of the midnight wind ; * " If they should place the sun on my right hand, and the " moon on my left, they should not divert me from my course."— Gibbon's Rom. Km. Vol. IX. p. 285. t Three days and three nights Mahomet lay concealed in thi• cavern,... | |
 | 1814 - Počet stránok 678
...reclin'd, He caught the moanings of the midnight wind ; * " If they sliould place the sun on my right hand, and the " moon on my left, they should not divert me from niy course." — Gibbon's Roiu. Em. Vol. IX. p. 285. t Three days and three nights Mahomet lay concealed... | |
 | William Jones - 1816 - Počet stránok 500
...replied the fanatic, to his uncle and benefactor, ";if ,they should place the sun on my right hand and the moon on my left, they should not divert me...persevered ten years in the exercise of his mission, during which time the religion that has since overspread the East and the West advanced with a slow... | |
 | William Jones - 1816 - Počet stránok 500
...remonstrances," replied the fanatic, to his uncle and benefactor, " if they should place the sun on my right hand and the moon on my left, they should not divert me...persevered ten years in the exercise of his mission, during which time the religion that has since overspread the East and the West advanced with a slow... | |
 | William Jones - 1816 - Počet stránok 492
...persevered ten years in the exercise of his mission, during which time the religion that has since overspread the East and the West advanced with a slow and painful progress within the walls of Mecca. In his uncle Abu-Taleb, though no believer in his mission, the impostor found a guardian of his fame... | |
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Spare your remonstrances,' replied the intrepid fanatic to his uncle and benefactor ; ' if they should place the sun on my right hand, and the moon on my left, they should not divert me from my course. 
