 | Religion - 1832 - 852 pages
...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 - 204 pages
...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 - College verse - 1810 - 186 pages
...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 - Theology - 1810 - 436 pages
...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 - 416 pages
...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 670 pages
...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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 678 pages
...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 - Albigenses - 1816 - 500 pages
...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 - Albigenses - 1816 - 500 pages
...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 - Albigenses - 1816 - 492 pages
...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. 
