 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 sider
...obscure presses of one of the consequences of such an event. He observes, 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 be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpits... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 sider
...Highlands of Scotland. The Rhine is not more impassable than the Nile or Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the...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... | |
 | Andrew Dunlap - 1834 - 278 sider
...of Scotland ; the Rhine is not more impassable than the Nile or the Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of the Thames." Perhaps, Gentlemen, had the banner of the Crescent triumphantly advanced in that fight, and the ensign of the... | |
 | Abner Kneeland - 1834 - 320 sider
...of Scotland ; the Rhine is not more impassable than the Nile or the Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of the Thames." Perhaps, Gentlemen, had the banner of the Crescent triumphantly advanced in that fight, and the ensign of the... | |
 | Abner Kneeland, Samuel Dunn Parker - 1834 - 282 sider
...of Scotland ; the Rhine is not more impassable than the Nile or the Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of the Thames." Perhaps, Gentlemen, had the banner of the Crescent triumphantly advanced in that fight, and the ensign of the... | |
 | Andrew Crichton - 1834 - 432 sider
...of Scotland. The Rhine is not more impassable than the Nile or the Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of the Thames. The .seven Saxon kingdoms of Britain, torn by wars and factions, must have presented but a feeble barrier... | |
 | 1848 - 692 sider
...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 - 1841 - 376 sider
...Scotland : the Rhine is not more impassable than the Nile or the Euphrates ; and the Arabian fleet might have sailed, without a naval combat, into the...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 sider
...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... | |
 | 1848 - 786 sider
...Highlands of Scotland. The Rhine is not more impassable than the Nile or Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the...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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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... 
