Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in Vols. IV, V, and VI, Quarto, ReviewedJ. Murray, 1791 - 258 頁 |
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第 15 頁
... Mahometan power 3. ' The Roman fenators think it it an honour , and al- * V. i . p , 13 . 2 p . 16 . ، most an obligation , to ⚫ adorn the splendour. p . 23 . moft р . 122 . 3 р . 130 . ration Vols . IV . V. VI . 450 . 15.
... Mahometan power 3. ' The Roman fenators think it it an honour , and al- * V. i . p , 13 . 2 p . 16 . ، most an obligation , to ⚫ adorn the splendour. p . 23 . moft р . 122 . 3 р . 130 . ration Vols . IV . V. VI . 450 . 15.
第 84 頁
... Mahometans , p . 262- 265 ; the fucceffion of Moawiyah , and the change of government from elective to hereditary , p . 266 -271 ; all'anticipated ' confefsedly , and therefore containing a hint in p . 262 , that the Mahomet . ans had ...
... Mahometans , p . 262- 265 ; the fucceffion of Moawiyah , and the change of government from elective to hereditary , p . 266 -271 ; all'anticipated ' confefsedly , and therefore containing a hint in p . 262 , that the Mahomet . ans had ...
第 86 頁
... Mahometans ' ; fo I shall foon shew it to be a reality , even in the opinions of the Ma- hometans themselves , and to form a fundamental article in that very creed . Al Borak then was an Γ animal , which had a man's face , a. • Modern ...
... Mahometans ' ; fo I shall foon shew it to be a reality , even in the opinions of the Ma- hometans themselves , and to form a fundamental article in that very creed . Al Borak then was an Γ animal , which had a man's face , a. • Modern ...
第 89 頁
... Mahometan general alleges for the fur- rendery of Jerufalem to him , that ' Mahomet him- ت 購 1 • self went from it in one night to heaven ; ' all the h Mahometans in general have ever since considered a disbelief of this journey , to ...
... Mahometan general alleges for the fur- rendery of Jerufalem to him , that ' Mahomet him- ت 購 1 • self went from it in one night to heaven ; ' all the h Mahometans in general have ever since considered a disbelief of this journey , to ...
第 90 頁
... Mahometan accounts of this journey . Nor what a ، veil of unity ' means , is it easy to guess . And I fufpect Mr ... Mahomet , God is faid to have put one of his hands upon the shoulder , and another upon the breast , of Mahomet 4 ...
... Mahometan accounts of this journey . Nor what a ، veil of unity ' means , is it easy to guess . And I fufpect Mr ... Mahomet , God is faid to have put one of his hands upon the shoulder , and another upon the breast , of Mahomet 4 ...
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第 25 頁 - ... inscribe this work to a Statesman who, in a long, a stormy, and at length an unfortunate administration, had many political opponents, almost without a personal enemy ; who has retained, in his fall from power, many faithful and disinterested friends ; and who, under the pressure of severe infirmity, enjoys the lively vigour of his mind, and the felicity of his incomparable temper.
第 89 頁 - ... 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 a cold that pierced him to the heart, when his shoulder was touched by the hand of God.
第 144 頁 - Mahometans, to extirpate by the sword all other religions, it is, by the law of self defence, lawful for men of every other religion, and for Christians among others, to make war upon Mahometans, simply as Mahometans, as men obliged by their own principles to make war upon Christians, and only lying in wait till opportunity shall promise them success.
第 64 頁 - The seeds of the faith, which had slowly arisen in the rocky and ungrateful soil of Judea, were transplanted, in full maturity, to the happier climes of the Gentiles; and the strangers of Rome or Asia, who never beheld the manhood, were the more readily disposed to embrace the divinity, of Christ.
第 26 頁 - When Int'reft calls off all her fneaking train, And all th' oblig'd defert, and all the vain ; She waits, or to the fcaffold, or the cell, When the laft ling'ring friend has bid farewell.
第 100 頁 - Yet these exceptions are temporary or local ; the body of the nation has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies ; the arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest of Arabia...
第 55 頁 - gofpel, or the church, have at length impofed a pious ' fervitude on the minds of Chriftians, and condemn ' them to expect, without a murmur, the loft ftroke ' of difeafe or the executioner.
第 106 頁 - Madayn, which had resisted the battering-rams of the Romans, would not have yielded to the darts of the Saracens. But the flying Persians were overcome by the belief that the last day of their religion and empire was at hand ; the strongest posts were abandoned by treachery or cowardice ; and the king, with a part of his family and treasures, escaped to Holwan at the foot of the Median hills.
第 69 頁 - During a happy period of more than fourscore years, the public administration was conducted by the virtue and abilities of Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the two Antonines. It is the design of this and of the two succeeding chapters, to describe the prosperous condition of their empire ; ' and afterwards, from the death of Marcus Antoninus, to deduce the most important circumstances of its decline and fall : a revolution which will ever be remembered, and is still felt by the nations of the earth.
第 26 頁 - Fortune's cloud one truly great can fee, Nor fears to tell, that MORTIMER is he.