 | 1880 - 814 pages
...in the cave of Hera, three mill's fro.n Mecca, ho consulted the spirit of fraud or enthusiasm, whoso abode is not in the heavens but in the mind of the...compounded of an eternal truth, and a necessary fiction, TlIAT TIIKKK IS ONLY ONK GOD, AND THAT MAIIOMET IS TIIE APOSTLE OF GOD. It is tin boast of the Jewish... | |
 | Henry Elliot Shepherd - History - 1881 - 368 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...eternal truth and a necessary fiction — that there is only one God, and that Mohammed is the apostle of God CONQUEST OP JERUSALEM BY THE CRUSADERS, 1099... | |
 | E.H. Butler & Co - Readers - 1853 - 396 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...eternal truth and a necessary fiction, — that there is only one God, and that Mahomet is the apostle of God. DEFINITIONS. — 2. Scru'pu lotts ly, with... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 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...is compounded of an eternal truth and a necessary fiction—that there is only one God, and that Mahomet is the apostle of God. At the conclusion of... | |
 | Thomas Burr Sikes - 1885 - 336 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 Mahomet is the Apostle of God.' " The great impostor pretended that he had... | |
 | Thomas Patrick Hughes - Religion - 1885 - 794 pages
...the Almighty. Гкдыжлн.] " The faith." says Gibbon, •• which he (Muhammad) preached to hie family and nation, is compounded of an eternal truth and a necessary fiction: That there is only one God, and that Muhammad is the Apostle of God." (Roman £mpirt, vol vl p. 222.) •' Mohammad's... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1886 - 732 pages
...recovery he no longer doubted of his prophetic office. The faith which, under the name of Islam,\ ho preached to his family and nation, is compounded of...eternal truth and a necessary fiction, THAT THERE is ONLY ONE GOD, AND THAT MAHOMET is THE APOSTLE OF GOD. § 3. With the exception of the children of... | |
 | Henry Elliot Shepherd - 1888 - 456 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...is compounded of an eternal truth and a necessary fiction—that there is only one God, and that Mohammed is the apostle of God CONQUEST OF JERUSALEM... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1892 - 592 pages
...consider him as a religious teacher. Gibbon, in his epigrammatic way, declares that the faith of Islam is compounded of an eternal truth, and a necessary fiction : that there is only one God, and that Mohammed is the Prophet of God. With the first part of this dictum we entirely... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1892 - 598 pages
...consider him as a religious teacher. Gibbon, in his epigrammatic way, declares that the faith of Islam is compounded of an eternal truth, and a necessary fiction : that there is only one God, and that Mohammed is the Prophet of God. With the first part of this dictum we entirely... | |
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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... 
