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Strana 23
But Mahomet was content with a character more humble , yet more sublime , of a simple editor : the substance of “ the Koran , " according to himself or his disciples , is uncreated and eternal ; subsisting in the essence of the Deity ...
But Mahomet was content with a character more humble , yet more sublime , of a simple editor : the substance of “ the Koran , " according to himself or his disciples , is uncreated and eternal ; subsisting in the essence of the Deity ...
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already appeared arms army authority battle became believe body brother brought Cæsar called carried cause character Charles chief Church Columbus command confidence consuls court Cromwell death doubt enemy England English entered equal eyes faith father favor fear feeling followed force France Frederick French friends gave give hand Hannibal head heart honor hope hundred Italy king land less letters light lived looked Lord Luther Mahomet master means mind nature never offered once parliament party passed peace person Pitt political possessed present princes probably prophet queen raised received remained Roman Rome seemed senate sent side soldiers soon soul spirit success taken things thought thousand tion took town troops true turned whole wish write young
Populárne pasáže
Strana 21 - ... in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing! Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the ./Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident; or do these workings argue something within us above the trodden clod...
Strana 51 - I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound : everywhere and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Strana 44 - ... which alone is man's reasonable service. This feeling was as a celestial fountain, whose streams refreshed into gladness and beauty all the provinces of their otherwise too desolate existence. In a word, they willed one thing, to which all other things were subordinated, and made subservient ; and therefore they accomplished it. The wedge will rend rocks ; but its edge must be sharp and single : if it be double, the wedge is bruised in pieces, and will rend nothing.
Strana 68 - Hannibal gave my young ideas such a turn, that I used to strut in raptures up and down after the recruiting drum and bag-pipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil along there, till the flood-gates of life shut in eternal rest.
Strana 15 - ... with genuine earnestness the thought, the emotion, the actual condition of his own heart; and other men, so strangely are we all knit together by the tie of sympathy, must and will give heed to him. In culture, in extent of view, we may stand above the speaker, or below him; but in either case, his words, if they are earnest and sincere, will find some response within us; for in spite of all casual varieties in outward rank or inward, as face answers to face, so does the heart of man to man.
Strana 26 - Abubeker, confirmed the religion of the prophet whom he was destined to succeed. By his persuasion, ten of the most respectable citizens of Mecca were introduced to the private lessons of Islam ; they yielded to the voice of reason and enthusiasm ; they repeated the fundamental creed ; " there is but one God, and Mahomet is the apostle of God...
Strana 21 - I never hear the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Strana 19 - As often as he is pressed by the demands of the Koreish, he involves himself in the obscure boast of vision and prophecy, appeals to the internal proofs of his doctrine, and shields himself behind the providence of God, who refuses those signs and wonders that would depreciate the merit of faith, and aggravate the guilt of infidelity...
Strana 39 - If he entered an inn at midnight, after all the inmates were ' in bed, the news of his arrival circulated from the cellar to ' the garret; and ere ten minutes had elapsed, the landlord 'and all his guests were assembled...
Strana 8 - No noble work of imagination, as far as we recollect, was ever composed by any man, except in a dialect which he had learned without remembering how or when, and which he had spoken with perfect ease before he had ever analyzed its structure.
Bibliografické informácie
| Názov | Acme Library of Standard Biography Acme Library of Standard Biography |
| Vydavateľ | American Book Exchange, 1880 |
| Zdroj originálu: | Michiganská univerzita |
| Digitalizované | 7. mar. 2006 |
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