| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1789 - 424 pages
...the cave of Hera, three miles from Mecca 7!, he confulted the fpirit of fraud or enthufiafm , whofe abode is not in the heavens, but in the mind of the...nation, is compounded of an eternal truth , and a neceffary fiction THAT THERE is ONLY ONE GOD, AND THAT MAHOMET is THE APOSTLE OF GOD. One Ceri. It... | |
| George Gregory - 1790 - 456 pages
...in the cave of Hera, three miles from Mecca, he confnlted the fpirit of fraud or enthufiafm, whofe abode is not in the heavens, but in the mind of the prophet. The faith which, under the name of I/lam, he preached to his family and nation, is compounded of an eternal truth, and a neceflary fiction... | |
| 1792 - 822 pages
...heavens, but in the mird of the prophet. The faith of which, under the name of Ißam, he preached ed to his family and nation, is compounded of an eternal truth, and the neceflary union, " That there is only one God, and that Mahomet ii the Apoßle of God." At the... | |
| George Gregory - Church history - 1795 - 582 pages
...from Mecca, he confulted the fpirit of fraud or enthufiafm, whofe abode was not in the hea-' vens, but in the mind of the prophet. The faith which, under the name of IJlam, he preached to his family and nation, is compounded of an eternal truth, and a. neceffary fiction... | |
| Religion - 1832 - 852 pages
...month of Ramadan, he withdrew from the world ; and in the cave of Hera, three miles from Mecca, he consulted the spirit of fraud or enthusiasm, whose abode is not in the heaven, but in the mind of the prophet." (chap. 1.) " And there came out of the smoke locusts upon... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 488 pages
...withdrew from the world and from the arms of Cadijah: in the cave of Hera, three miles from Mecca,73 he consulted the spirit of fraud or enthusiasm, -whose...of the prophet. The faith which, under the name of Mam, he preached to his family and nation, is compounded of an eternal truth, and a necessary fiction,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 526 pages
...the world and from the arms of Cadijah : L. In the cave of Hera, three miles from Mecca'*, *— v he consulted the spirit of fraud or enthusiasm, whose...of an eternal truth, and a necessary fiction, THAT THEKE is ONLY ONE GOD, AND THAT MAHOMET is THE APOSTLE OF GOD. One God. it is the boast of the Jewish... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 526 pages
...world and from the arms of Cadijah : L. In the cave of Hera, three miles from Mecca *, '- v ' ' he consulted the spirit of fraud or enthusiasm, whose...name of Islam, he preached to his family and nation, i? compounded of an eternal truth, and a necessary fiction, THAT THERE is ONLY ONE GOD, AND THAT MAHOMET... | |
| George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1828 - 484 pages
...withdrew from the world and from the arms of Cadijah. In the cave of Hera, three miles from Mecca, he consulted the spirit of fraud 'or enthusiasm, whose abode is not in the Jleavens but in the mind of tJie prophet. The faith, which, under the name of ISLAM, he preached to... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...the пит! of ihi' prophet. The 1'aith which, under the name of Islam, he preached to liis lamily e then is only one God, and that Mohammed is the apostle of God. Death and Character of Timour, or Tamerlane,... | |
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