 | Curiosities and wonders - 1789 - 508 pages
...within two bow* jhots of the throne, and felt a cold that pierced him t > the * heart, when his Jbntlder was touched by the hand of God.' What is this ' veil of unity,' and whence did Mr. Gibbon derive it ? There is no fuch ' veil,' we apprehend, in the Mahometan accounts of this journey. Nor what a... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1802 - 526 pages
...Mahomet alone was permitted to proceed; he paffed the veil of unity, approached within two bow-fhots of the throne, and felt a cold that pierced him to the heart, when his fhoulder was touched by the hand of God. After this familiar though important converfation, he again... | |
 | William Jones - Albigenses - 1816 - 500 pages
...Mahomet alone was permitted to proceed; he passed the Veil of Unity, approached within two bowshots of the throne; and felt a cold that pierced him to the heart, when his shoulder was touched by the hand of God. After this familiar though important conversation, he again... | |
 | William Jones - Albigenses - 1816 - 492 pages
...Mahomet alone was permitted to proceed; he passed the Veil of Unity, approached within two bowshots of the throne ; and felt a cold that pierced him to the heart, when his shoulder was touched by the hand of God. After this familiar though important conversation, he again... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 488 pages
...Mahomet alone was permitted to proceed ; he passed the veil of unity, approached within two bow-shots of the throne, and felt a cold that pierced him to the heart, 96 See more remarkably, Koran, c. 2. 6. 12, 13. 17. Pi-ideaux (Life of Muhomet, p. 18, 19.) lias confounded... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1843 - 550 pages
...Mahomet alone was permitted to proceed ; he passed the veil of unity, approached within two bow-shots ol the throne, and felt a cold that pierced him to the heart, when his shoulder was touched by the hand of God. After this familiar though important conversation, he again... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 496 pages
...Mahomet alone was permitted to proceed ; he passed the veil of unity, approached within two bow-shots of the throne, and felt a cold that pierced him to the heart, when his shoulder was touched by the hand of God. After this familiar though important conversation, he again... | |
 | Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - French language - 1858 - 362 pages
...Mahomet alone was permitted to proceed ; 9 he passed the veil of unity, approached within two bowshots10 of the throne, and felt a cold that pierced him to the heart,11 when his shoulder was touched by the hand of God. After a familiar, though important conversation,12... | |
 | Alfred G. Havet - 1863 - 508 pages
...Mahomet* alone was permitted to proceed; he passed the veil of unity, approached within two bow-shots9 of the throne, and felt a cold that pierced him to the heart, when his shoulder was touched by the hand of God. After a familiar, though important, conversation, he again... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1870 - 682 pages
...which we have before mentioned, was his journey to heaven, when he approached within two bow-shots of the throne, and felt a cold that pierced him to the heart : when his shoulder was touched by the hand of God. The Diety commanded him to impose on his followers fifty prayers... | |
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... the salutations of the patriarchs, the prophets, and the angels, in their respective mansions. Beyond the seventh heaven, Mahomet alone was permitted to proceed ; he passed the veil of unity, approached within two bow-shots of the throne, and felt... 
