The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 5

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H. Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1907

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Side 385 - Cadijah; in the cave of Hera, three miles from Mecca," he consulted the spirit of fraud or enthusiasm, whose abode is not in the heavens, but in the mind of the prophet. The faith which, under the name of Islam, he preached to his family and nation is compounded of an eternal truth, and a necessary fiction, That there is only one God, and that Mahomet is the Apostle of God.
Side 186 - Encompassed on all sides by the enemies of their religion, the Ethiopians slept near a thousand years, forgetful of the world, by whom they were forgotten.
Side 259 - Paul : and, in every deed of mischief, he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
Side 381 - Abyssinians ,66 whose victory would have introduced into the Caaba the religion of the Christians. In his early infancy, he was deprived of his father, his mother, and his grandfather; his uncles were strong and numerous; and, in the division of the inheritance, the orphan's share was reduced to five camels and an Ethiopian maidservant.
Side 308 - The splendid donation was granted in supreme and absolute dominion, and the world beheld, for the first time, a Christian bishop invested with the prerogatives of a temporal prince : the choice of magistrates, the exercise of justice, the imposition of taxes, and the wealth of the palace of Ravenna.
Side 362 - 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...
Side 520 - of the Greeks agree with the hook of God, they are useless and " need not be preserved : if they disagree, they are pernicious and
Side 123 - On a fatal day, in the holy season of Lent, Hypatia was torn from her chariot, stripped naked, dragged to the church, and inhumanly butchered by the hands of Peter the reader and a troop of savage and merciless fanatics: her flesh was scraped from her bones with sharp oyster-shells, and her quivering limbs were delivered to the flames.
Side 445 - Ommiyah;1" but in the fourth age of the Hegira a tomb, a temple, a city, arose near the ruins of Cufa. "* Many thousands of the Shiites repose in holy ground at the feet of the vicar of God; and the desert is vivified by the numerous and annual visits of the Persians, who esteem their devotion not less meritorious than the pilgrimage of Mecca.
Side 520 - The rigid sentence of Omar is repugnant to the sound and orthodox precept of the Mahometan casuists : they expressly declare, that the religious books of the Jews and Christians, which are acquired by the right of war, should never be committed to the flames ; and that the works of profane Science, historians or poets, physicians or philosophers, may be lawfully applied to the use of the faithful.

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