 God, a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months of fasting or prayer : whosoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven ; at the day of judgment his wounds shall be resplendent as vermilion, and odoriferous as musk ; and the loss of his limbs...  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Strana 130podľa Edward Gibbon - 1899Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Nathan Drake - 1800 - Počet stránok 482
...battle, his sins are forgiven : at the day of judgment his Wounds shall be resplendent as vermilion and odoriferous as musk; and the loss of his limbs...be supplied by the wings of angels and cherubim." Fired by representations such as these, and by the powerful temptations of a sensual paradise, the... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - Počet stránok 370
...battle, his sins are forgiven ; at the day of judgment his wounds shall be resplendent as vermilion, and odoriferous as musk ; and the loss of his limbs shall be sup-' plied by the wings of angels and cherubims." The intrepid souls of the Arabs were fired with•... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1807 - Počet stránok 366
...odonferous a* musk ; and the loss of his limbs shall be sHpplied by the wings of angels and cherubims." The intrepid souls of the Arabs were fired with enthusiasm...picture of the invisible world was strongly painted CHI their imaginations ; and the death which they had always despised, now became an object of hope... | |
 | John Evans - 1807 - Počet stránok 344
...forgiven at the day of judgment ; his wounds shall be resplendent as vermilion, and odoriferous as musk, the loss of his limbs shall be supplied by the wings of angels and cherubims." . Mr. Clarke, in his answer to the question, Why are you a Christian'? already mentioned,... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1808 - Počet stránok 304
...battle, his sins are forgiven : at the day of judgment his wounds shall be resplendent as vermilion and odoriferous as musk : and the loss of his limbs...be supplied by the wings of angels and cherubim."^[ Thus was the power of Mo* Hist, of Decl. and Fall, VoL ix. p. 285, 286. f Ac" vi"- 5l J Acts xi. 19-... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1808 - Počet stránok 592
...battle, his sins are forgiven : at the day of judgment his wounds shall be resplendent as vermilion and odoriferous as musk : and the loss of his limbs...be supplied by the wings of angels and cherubim."^ Thus was the power of Mo• Hist, of Decl. and Fall, Vol. IX. p. 285, 386. | Act§ *•"• 5} Acts... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - Počet stránok 700
...forgiven at the day of judgment ; his wounds shall be resplendant as vermilion, and odoriferous as musk, the loss of his limbs shall be supplied by the wings of angels and cherubim." Who would not die to be acquitted at the bar of heaven ? Who would not prefer a night in arms to a... | |
 | William Paley - 1810 - Počet stránok 436
...battle, his sins are forgiven at the day of judgment ; his wounds shall be resplendent as vermilion, and odoriferous as musk; and the loss of his limbs...be supplied by the wings of angels and cherubim." Gibbon, vol. iX p. 256. * Ch. iii. 54 f Ch. iv. p. 63. t Gibbon, vol. is. p. 225. « Mod. Univ. Hist.... | |
 | William Paley - 1811 - Počet stránok 416
...battle, hia sins are forgiven at the day of judgement; his wounds shall be resplendent as vermilion, and odoriferous as musk ; and the loss of his limbs...be supplied by the wings of angels and cherubim." Gibbon, vol. ix. p. S66. I Sale's Koran, c. iii. p. 54. distinction, although Mahomet laid a restraint... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - Počet stránok 488
...forgiven : at the day of judgment his " wounds shall be resplendent as vermillion and odori'• ferous as musk ; and the loss of his limbs shall be " supplied...imagination ; and the death which they had always despised becaaie an object hope and desire. The Koran inculcates, in the most absolute sense, the tenets of... | |
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