 | William Fordyce Mavor - Chronology, Historical - 1804 - 370 pages
...style will not, in a version, reach the European infidel. The divine attributes exalt the fancy of the Arabian missionary ; but his loftiest strains must...composed in a remote age, in the same country, and the same language. At the end of two hundred years, the Sonna, or oral law, was fixed and consecrated... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 488 pages
...crawls in the dust, and is sometimes lost in the clouds. The divine attributes exalt the fancy of the Arabian missionary; but his loftiest strains must yield to the sublime simplicity of the book of Ji>:>, composed in a remote age, in the same country and in the same language.94 If the composition... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 526 pages
...crawls in the dust, and is sometimes lost in the clouds. The divine attributes exalt the fancy of the Arabian missionary ; but his loftiest strains must...age, in the same country, and in the same language f. If the composition of the Koran exceed the faculties of a man, to what superior intelligence should... | |
 | Charles Wilkinson - Greece - 1806 - 484 pages
...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...age, in the same country, and in the same language." Bursa is extensive and populous; but the streets are narrow, even for an Asiatic town. Many houses... | |
 | Charles Butler - Bible - 1807 - 338 pages
...sometimes lost in the " clouds. The divine attributes exalt the " fancy of an Arabian missionary; but his u loftiest strains must yield to the sublime " simplicity...distinguished by titles, but are not numbered, and arc divided into smaller portions. Seven principal exemplars have been made of the koran ; two at Medina,... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1807 - 366 pages
...will not, in a version, reach the European infidel. The divine attributes exalt tlie fancy of »he Arabian. missionary ; but his loftiest strains must...simplicity of the book of Job, composed in a remote •ge, in the same country, and the same language. At the end of two hundred years, the Smmui or oral... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 596 pages
...in the dust, 197 and is sometimes lost in the clouds. The divine attributes exalt the fancy of the Arabian missionary ; but his loftiest strains must...age, in the same country, and in the same language."* Such are the dark sentences of the Koran ; and the religion, which it inculcates, may well be described... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 304 pages
...lost in the clouds. The divine attributes exalt the fancy of the Arabian missionary ; but his lotjiest strains must yield to the sublime simplicity of the...age, in the same country, and in the same language."* Such are the dark sentences of the Koran ; and the religion, which it inculcates, may well be described... | |
 | John Dick - Bible - 1811 - 302 pages
...a greater light."* " Its loftiest strains," says a writer by no means partial to the scriptures, " must yield to the sublime simplicity of the book of...age, in the same country, and in the same language."! His idea of the language, in which the book of Job was written, may be disputed ; but his character... | |
 | William Jones - Albigenses - 1816 - 492 pages
...single page, and presumes to assert that God alone could dictate this incomparable performance. Yet his loftiest strains must yield to the sublime simplicity...in the same country and in the same language.* The contents of the Koran were at first diligently recorded by his disciples on palm leaves and the shoulder... | |
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European infidel: he will peruse with impatience the endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, and precept, and declamation, which seldom excites a sentiment or an idea, which sometimes crawls in the dust, and is sometimes lost in the clouds. The divine attributes... 
