 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 pages
...various editions of the Koran assert the same miraculous privilege of an uniform and incorruptible text. In the spirit of enthusiasm or vanity, the prophet...assert that God alone could dictate this incomparable performance.91 This argument is most powerfully addressed to a devout Arabian, whose mind is attuned... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 370 pages
...successor, Abu Beer : the work was revised by the caliph Othman, in the thirtieth year of the Hegira. In the spirit of enthusiasm, or vanity, the prophet...the truth of his mission on the merit of his book, and audaciously challenges both men and angels to imitate the beauties of a single page ; and presumes... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 526 pages
...various editions of the Koran assert the same miraculous privilege of an uniform and incorruptible text. In the spirit of enthusiasm or vanity, the prophet...page, and presumes to assert that God alone could could dictate this incomparable performance *. c HA p. This argument is most powerfully addressed to... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 526 pages
...various editions of the Koran assert the same miraculous privilege of an uniform and incorruptible texc. In the spirit of enthusiasm or vanity, the prophet...mission on the merit of his book, audaciously challenges bot;< men and angels to imitate the beauties of a single page, and presumes to assert that God alone... | |
 | Charles Wilkinson - 1806 - 484 pages
...volume was collected and published by his friend and successor. The prophet audaciously challenged both men and angels to imitate the beauties -of a single page ; but his loftiest strains must yield to the sublime simplicity of the book of Job, composed in a remote... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1807 - 366 pages
...of enthusiasm, or vanity, the prophet rests the truth of his mission on the merit of his book, and audaciously challenges both men and angels to imitate the beauties of a single finge ; and presumes to assert, that God alone could dictate this incomparable performance. This argument... | |
 | William Jones - 1816 - 500 pages
...of the Alcoran is abrogated or modified by any subsequent passage. In the spirit of enthusiasm or of vanity, the prophet rests the truth of his mission...alone could dictate this incomparable performance. Yet his loftiest strains must yield to the sublime simplicity of the book of Job, composed in a remote... | |
 | William Jones - 1816 - 500 pages
...of the Alcoran is abrogated or modified by any subsequent passage. In the spirit of enthusiasm or of vanity, the prophet rests the truth of his mission...alone could dictate this incomparable performance. Yet his loftiest strains must yield to the sublime simplicity of the book of Job, composed in a remote... | |
 | William Jones - 1816 - 492 pages
...any subsequent passage. In the spirit of enthusiasm or of vanity, the prophet rests the truth of hi* mission on the merit of his book, audaciously challenges...alone could dictate this incomparable performance. Yet his loftiest strains must yield to the sublime simplicity of the book of Job, composed in a remote... | |
 | 1820 - 870 pages
...of Muhammed was proclaimed by his followers, as the grand argument in favour of its divine origin. In the spirit of enthusiasm or vanity, the Prophet rests the truth of Jus mission on the merit of his book ; audaciously challenges both men and angels to imitate the beauties... | |
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In the spirit of enthusiasm or vanity, the prophet rests the truth of his mission on the merit of his book; audaciously challenges both men and angels to imitate the beauties of a single page; and presumes to assert that God alone could dictate this incomparable... 
