 | John David Macbride - 1857 - 308 Seiten
...enthusiast, " my career had not been checked by the ocean, I would still go on proclaiming, great God, the unity of Thy holy name, and putting to the sword the rebellious nations who worship any other gods. Within a century from the Hejirah, the traitor Count Julian invited Mousa, the general of the... | |
 | Lewis Cheeseman - 1860 - 332 Seiten
...is said that "Akbah spurred his horse into the waves, and, raising his eyes to heaven, exclaimed, ' Great God ! if my course were not stopped by this sea, I would still go on to the unknown kingdom's of the West, preaching the unity of thy holy name, and putting to the sword the rebellious... | |
 | European history - 1860 - 310 Seiten
...raised his eyes to heaven, and exclaimed, " Great Allah, if my course were not stopped by these waves, I would still go on to the unknown kingdoms of the west, preaching the unity of thy name, and putting rebellious nations to the sword." In almost all cases, the perfect Mahommedan is... | |
 | Andrew Crichton - 1868 - 426 Seiten
...waves, and raising his eyes to heaven, he exclaimed, with the enthusiasm of the Macedonian madman, " Great God ! if my course were not stopped by this...preaching the unity of thy holy name, and putting to th3 sword the rebellious nations who worship any other gods but thee !" It was on the banks of the... | |
 | James H. Braund - 1870 - 524 Seiten
...his horse into the waves, and, raising his eyes to heaven, exclaimed with the tone of a fanatic — ' Great God, if my course were not stopped by this sea,...sword the rebellious nations who worship any other gods than thee.' " The historian's account of the conquest of Spain contains : — " From the royal... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1870 - 458 Seiten
...his horse into the waves, and raising his eyes to "heaven, exclaimed with the tone of a fanatic : " Great God ! if my course were not stopped by this...sword the rebellious nations who worship any other Gods than thee."' Yet this Mahometan Alexander, who sighed for new worlds, was unable to preserve his... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 432 Seiten
...spurred his horse into the waves, and raising his eyes to heaven, exclaimed with the tone of a fanatic, "Great God, if my course were not stopped by this...the West, preaching the unity of Thy holy name." And the picture reminds us of another, some eight centuries later, when Constantinople was besieged and... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 550 Seiten
...spurred his horse into the waves, and raising his eyes to heaven, exclaimed with the tone of a fanatic, "Great God, if my course were not stopped by this...the West, preaching the unity of Thy holy name." And the picture reminds us of another, some eight centuries later, when Constantinople was besieged and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1871 - 640 Seiten
...heaven, exclaimed with a tone of a fanatic, " Great God ! if my course were not stopped by this sea, 1 would still go on, to the unknown kingdoms of the...sword the rebellious nations who worship any other Gods than thee." '" Yet this Mahometan Alexander, who sighed for new worlds, was unable to preserve... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1873 - 646 Seiten
...heaven, exclaimed with a tone of a fanatic, " Great God ! if my course were not stopped by this «ea, I would still go on, to the unknown kingdoms of the...sword the rebellious nations who worship any other Gods than thee." 153 Yet this Mahometan Alexander, who sighed for new worlds, was unable to preserve... | |
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God ! if my course were not stopped by this sea, " I would still go on, to the unknown kingdoms " of the West, preaching the unity of thy holy " name, and putting to the sword the rebellious " nations who worship any other gods than " thee *." Yet this... 
