 | George Gregory - 1795 - Počet stránok 582
...of the importance and juftice of the end. Even in a conqueror or a priell, I can furprife a word Qr action of unaffected humanity ; and the decree of Mahomet, that in the fale pf captives the mothers fhould never be feparated from their children, tnay fufpend or moderate... | |
 | Thomas Thornton - 1807 - Počet stránok 502
...paradise. (Tab. Gen. V. ip 199.) " The decree of Mahomet," says Gibbon, (Rom. Hist. V. ix. p. 323.) " that, in the sale of captives, the mothers should...children, may suspend or moderate the censure of the historian." 340 of the marriage portion and other property belonging to her, which, in case of her... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1808 - Počet stránok 304
...the arts of fraud and fiction may be deemed less criminal ; and he would have started at the foulness of the means, had he not been satisfied of the importance and justice of the end."* Such is the unwilling confession even of his apologist Mr. Gibbon : nor was perfidy the exclusive characteristic... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1808 - Počet stránok 592
...the arts of fraud and fiction may be deemed Jess criminal ; and he would have started at the foulness of the means, had he not been satisfied of the importance and justice of the end."* Such is the unwilling confession even of his apologist Mr. Gibbon : nor was perfidy the exclusive characteristic... | |
 | Thomas Thornton - 1809 - Počet stránok 508
...be no longer excluded from the enjoyment of paradise*. " The decree of Mahomet," savs */ Gibbon, " that, in the sale of captives, the mothers should...children, may suspend or moderate the censure of the historian-f -. "" Marriage is considered by the Turks mere- Marriage. ly as a civil contract. It .derives... | |
 | Thomas Thornton - 1809 - Počet stránok 520
...and be no longer excluded from the enjoyment of paradise*. " The decree of Mahomet," says Gibbon, " that, in the sale of captives, the mothers should...separated from their children, may suspend or moderate the cen-- . sure of the historian-f-." Marriage is considered by the Turks mere- Marriage. ly as a civil... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1810 - Počet stránok 960
...and be no longer ex. eluded from the enjoyment of paradise. " The decree of Mahomet," says Gibbon, " that, in the sale of captives, the mothers should...children, may suspend or moderate the censure of the historian." Marriage is considered by the Turks merely as a civil 'contract. It derives its validity... | |
 | 1810 - Počet stránok 928
...and be no longer ex. eluded from the enjoyment of paradise. " The decree of Mahomet," says Gibbon, " that, in the sale of captives, the mothers should...children, may suspend or moderate the censure of the historian." Marriage is considered by the Turks merely as a civil contract. It derives its validity... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1820 - Počet stránok 958
...and be no longer excluded from the enjoyment of paradise. " The decree of Mahomet," says Gibbon, " that, in the sale of captives, the mothers should...children, may suspend or moderate the censure of the historian." Marriage is considered by the Turks merely as a civil contract. It derives its validity... | |
 | Thomas Zouch, Francis Wrangham - 1820 - Počet stránok 558
...be allowed, not unfrequently exercised much lenity in their military expeditions. Humanity dictated the decree of Mahomet, that ' in the sale of captives...mothers should never be separated from their children.' What can breathe a more benevolent solicitude to alleviate the miseries of war, than the injunctions... | |
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In the support of truth, the arts of fraud and fiction may be deemed less criminal; and he would have started at the foulness of the means, had he not been satisfied of the importance and justice of the end. Even in a conqueror or a priest, I can surprise... 
