 Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of the Thames. Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpits might demonstrate to a circumcised people the...  The Works of Charles Sumner - Page 37by Charles Sumner - 1877Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1788 - 368 pages
...Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have failed without a naval combat into the mouth of the Thames. Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in, the fehools of Oxford, and her pulpitsmight demonflrate' to a circumcifed people the fandity and truth... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 488 pages
...Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of the Thames. Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now...people the sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mahomet.30 From such calamities was Christendom delivered by the Defeat oŁ genius and fortune of one... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 pages
...that M lit Arabian fleet might have sailed, without a naval combat, into the mouth of the Thames; and perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now...sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mahomet." I return from this digression to the transactions at Constantinople.—ED. and reluctant officer of... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 pages
...Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of the Thames. Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now...circumcised people, the sanctity and truth of the revelations of Mahomet." Had this plan of the Caliph's been executed, the armies of the East and the... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1848 - 692 pages
...p. 17, et seq. Gibbon's sneering remark, that if ;he Saracen conquests had not then been checked, " Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now...sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mahomet," has almost an air of regret. t Philosophy of History, p. 331. t History of the Reformation in Germany,... | |
 | Matthew Habershon - Bible - 1841 - 376 pages
...Euphrates ; and the Arabian fleet might have sailed, without a naval combat, into the mouth of the Thames. Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpit might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mahomet."... | |
 | 1892 - 848 pages
...Tread with religious feet the burning sands Of Araby and Mecca's stony soil. As Gibbon has suggested, "Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now...sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mahomet," had indeed the Saracen triumphed. Never had his scimitar flashed so far north beneath Arcturus. But... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1848 - 692 pages
...p. 17, et seq. Gibbon's sneering remark, that if ihe Saracen conquests had not then been checked, " Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now...sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mahomet," has almost an air of regret. t Philosophy of History, p. 331. j History of the Reformation in Germany,... | |
 | Religion - 1848 - 780 pages
...Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of the Thames. Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now...circumcised people, the sanctity and truth of the revelations of Mahomet." Had this plan of the Caliph's been executed, the armies of the East and the... | |
 | Theology - 1848 - 792 pages
...Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of the Thames. Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now...circumcised people, the sanctity and truth of the revelations of Mahomet." Had this plan of the Caliph's been executed, the armies of the East and the... | |
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