 | Thomas Robert Jolliffe - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 294
...crawls in the dust and is " sometimes lost in the clouds. The divine attri" butes exalt the fancy of the Arabian missionary ; " but his loftiest strains must...age, in the same country, and in the same " language. If the composition of the Koran " exceed the faculties of a man, to what superior " intelligence should... | |
 | Herschel S. Porter - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...alone could dictate this incomparable performance." * * '< 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." * Job's description of the war-horse, his description of leviathan, and the spirit of Eliphaz, are... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 496
...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...a remote age, in the same country, and in the same language.94 If the composition of the n Koran, c. 17, v. 89. In Sale, p. 235, 1'66. In Maracci, p.... | |
 | John David Macbride - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 308
...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 Job." Certainly, even in style, and merely as a composition, it would stand no comparison with the Hebrew... | |
 | Rev. James Gardner - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 1006
...crawls in the dust, and is sometimes lost in the clouds. The Divine attributes exalt the fancy of the ment, office, or living — [respectively and particularly naming the same, whereunto he is to be admi From the pen of the sceptical historian, this estimate has at all events the merit of impartiality.... | |
 | New York (State). Dept. of Public Instruction - 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 276
...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...the book of Job, composed in a remote age, in the same-country and in the same language.' The Arabians have cultivated every branch of literature and... | |
 | Andrew Crichton - 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 426
...force of its descriptions. Its brightest passages are lost in the blaze of the purer light ; and its loftiest strains must yield to the sublime simplicity...age, in the same country and in the same language. Even the enchanting fiction of the Mohammedan paradise was no original invention. The Jews had planted... | |
 | Sir Sayyid Aḥmad Ḵẖāṉ - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 546
...perfect one of its kind. The same historian mentions that " 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." We should not be justified in accepting this dictum of Mr. Gibbon, incompetent as he is to decide upon... | |
 | Sir Sayyid Aḥmad Ḵẖāṉ - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 542
...perfect one of its kind. The same historian mentions that " 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." We should not be justified in accepting this dictum of Mr. Gibbon, incompetent as he is to decide upon... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 458
...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. If the composition of the Koran exceed the faculties of a man, to what superior intelligence should... | |
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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... 
