 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 oldal
...exhausted by the Persian war, and the church was distracted by the Nestorian and Monophysite sects, Mahomet, with the sword in one hand and the koran in the other, erected his throne on the ruins CHAP, of Christianity and of Rome. The genius of the Arabian L' prophet,... | |
 | 1816 - 838 oldal
...burn, like the legionary soldiers of Rome, with the love of country, nor sigh with Alexander, because another world did not remain to conquer. They did...to convert by subduing mankind, and win the houris ef Paradise by imbruing their hands in the blood of the unbelievers. The ordinary motives which rouse... | |
 | 1846 - 798 oldal
...burn, like the legionary soldiers of Home, with the love of country, nor sigh with Alexander, because another world did not remain to conquer. They did...to convert by subduing mankind, and win the houris «f Paradise by imbruing their hands in the blood of the unbelievers. The ordinary motives which rouse... | |
 | Miron Winslow - 1819 - 450 oldal
...Brahma counts not his life dear to him, but offers it cheerfully beneath the care of his god, and while the followers of Mahomet, with the sword in one hand, and the Koran in the other, are ready to brave every danger to propagate the doctrines of their leader, the disciple of the Lord... | |
 | William Girdlestone - 1820 - 270 oldal
...establishes that power by the possession of Mecca in the year 630 : from thence he pushes his dominion, with the sword in one hand and the Koran in the other, four hundred leagues towards the south and towards the east, which included the pleasant land of Judea.... | |
 | John Fry - 1822 - 568 oldal
...answer to these symbols. But when " the Arabian prophet" appears, who, as our historian observes, " with the sword in one hand and the Koran in the other, erects his throne on the ruin of Christianity and of Rome," we immediately recognise the resemblance... | |
 | Jerom Alley - 1826 - 786 oldal
...obedient and ardent followers. For the language of exhortation, was substituted that of command or menace. With the sword in one hand, and the Koran in the other, he called down the vengeance of heaven on the obstinacy of the unbeliever, or proclaimed the holy war... | |
 | Ann Hasseltine Judson - 1827 - 700 oldal
...destinies of man, to their eyes, were inscribed on the pages of the book of the Mussulman's creed; and with the sword in one hand, and the Koran in the other, the fiery and enthusiastic Arab, neither baffled nor deterred by insult or opposition, by difficulty... | |
 | Edward Upham - 1827 - 396 oldal
...destinies of man, to their eyes, were inscribed on the pages of the book of the Mussulman's creed; and with the sword in one hand, and the Koran in the other, the fiery and enthusiastic Arab, neither baffled nor deterred by insult or opposition, by difficulty... | |
 | 1827 - 424 oldal
...world: on the abstraction of that influence, they have withered and died. The Mussulmans entered India with the sword in one hand, and the Koran in the other, and commenced their career by violating whatever was deemed most sacred I among the conquered. We apprehend,... | |
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Mahomet, with the sword in one hand and the Koran in the other, erected his throne on the ruins of Christianity and of Rome. 
