 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 384 pages
...three miles from Mecca, he con• Gibbon's Hist. ib. pp. 260, 261. 6 suited the spirit of fraud and enthusiasm, whose abode is not in the heavens, but in the mind of the prophet."* In the reign of Phocas, A. r>. 609, at the very time when, surrounded " by a blaze of glory and magnificence,"... | |
 | Joseph Mede - Apostasy - 1836 - 296 pages
...withdrew from the world and from the arms of Cadijah. Tn the cave of Hera, three miles from Mecca, he consulted the spirit of fraud or enthusiasm, whose...compounded of an eternal truth and a necessary fiction : " There is only one God, and Mahomed is the Apostle of God." — HIST, or DECLINE, Vol. ix. p. 235... | |
 | the christians - 1836 - 426 pages
...has justly declared of the great Arabian impostor, that " the faith which, under the name of hiam, he preached to his family and nation, is compounded...ETERNAL TRUTH, and a necessary fiction, THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE GoD, AND THAT MAHOMET is THE APOSTLE OF GOD." Mahometanism could not have been introduced... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...withdrew from the world and from the arms of Cadijah : in the cave of Hera, three miles from Mecca, he t thou, my Lucy, come alone, And let affection find...the admiring eye, As a rich beauty when her bloom is only one God, and that Mahomet is the apostle of God. [Term nf the Conyuest of Timmtr, or Tair-trlnm;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...withdrew from the world and from the arms of Cadijah : in the cave of Hera, three miles from Mecca, he is only one God, and that Mahomet is the apostle of God. [Term of the Cotiquea of Timour, or TamerlaM;... | |
 | Martin Ruter - Church history - 1845 - 458 pages
...cave of Hera, three miles from Mecca, he consulted the spirit of fraud or enthusiasm, whose abode was not in the heavens, but in the mind of the prophet....eternal truth, and a necessary fiction : That there is only one God, and that Mohammed is the apostle of God." , The doctrines of Mohammed were artfully... | |
 | 1870 - 494 pages
...willing ears of his family and later to the people at large ; a faith which, as has been well remarked, " is compounded of an eternal truth and a necessary fiction : That there is but One GOD, and that Mahomet is His prophet." It is a marvellous fact, that a man animated at first... | |
 | India - 1851 - 580 pages
...of the Lower Empire considered that he had epitomized the creed of Islam. " The faith which Muhammad preached to his family and nation ' is compounded of an eternal truth, and a necessary falsehood ; — ' that there is only one God, and that Muhammad is the apostle ' of God." A strong... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1852 - 636 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...under the name of Islam, he preached to his family anrl nation, is compounded of an eternal truth, and a necessary fiction, THAT THERE is ONLY ONE GOD,... | |
 | Philip Gell - 1854 - 428 pages
...withdrew from the world, and from the arms of Cadijah. In the cave of Hera, not far from Mecca, he consulted the spirit of fraud or enthusiasm, whose...eternal truth and a necessary fiction, that there is only one God, and that Mohammed is the apostle of God." In the cave of Hera, the prophet received... | |
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Cadijah; in the cave of Hera, three miles from Mecca," he consulted the spirit of fraud or enthusiasm, whose abode is not in the heavens, but in the mind of the prophet. The faith which, under the name of Islam, he preached to his family and nation is... 
