An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time, כרך 1

כריכה קדמית
T. Osborne, 1759
 

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עמוד 333 - Mohammed, rest in the crops of green birds, which eat of the fruits and drink of the rivers of paradise ; and the third of other believers, concerning the state of whose souls before the resurrection there are various opinions.
עמוד 165 - And soon after the prophet sent 3000 men against the Grecian forces, to revenge the death of one of his ambassadors who, being sent to the governor of Bosra on the same errand as those who went to the abovementioned princes, was slain by an Arab of the tribe of Ghassan, at Muta, a town in the territory of Balka, in Syria, about three days journey eastward from Jerusalem, near which town they encountered.
עמוד 12 - The water of this well is reckoned holy, and is highly reverenced ; being not only drunk with particular devotion by the pilgrims, but also sent in bottles, as a great rarity, to most parts of the Mohammedan dominions. Abd'allah, surnamed al...
עמוד 45 - Read !" continued the angel ; the prophet declared that he was unable to read. " Read !" Gabriel again exclaimed, " read, in the name of thy Lord, who hath created all things ; who hath created man of congealed blood.
עמוד 161 - Mohammed, that his followers might show themselves strong and active to cut off the hopes of the infidels, who gave out that the immoderate heats of Medina had rendered them weak'.
עמוד 81 - Mohammed affirmed it to be true, he verily believed the whole. Which happy incident not only retrieved the prophet's credit, but increased it to such a degree, that he was secure of being able to make his disciples swallow whatever he pleased to impose on them for the future. And I am apt to think...
עמוד 147 - The messenger being returned, Badhan in a few days received a letter from Shiruyeh informing him of his father's death, and ordering him to give the prophet no further disturbance. Whereupon Badhan and the Persians with him turned Mohammedans.
עמוד 337 - Mohammed himself enumerated them, are— of their time, how they spent it; of their wealth, by what means they acquired it, and how they employed it; of their bodies, wherein they exercised them; of their knowledge and learning, what use they made of them.
עמוד 86 - ... that if they were not firmly resolved to defend and not betray him, they had better declare their minds, and let him provide for his safety in some other manner. Upon their protesting their sincerity...

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