The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 7Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1811 - Artists |
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... prophet , and by the christians Mahomet , was born in Arabia , in the year 560. He was of the tribe of the Koreïshites , the noblest among the Arabs , and of the family of Hashem , prince of that tribe , and of the city of Mecca , and ...
... prophet , and by the christians Mahomet , was born in Arabia , in the year 560. He was of the tribe of the Koreïshites , the noblest among the Arabs , and of the family of Hashem , prince of that tribe , and of the city of Mecca , and ...
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... prophet . Three years were silently employed in these first conversions . The fourth year , Mahomet imagined he might publicly announce his mission ; he invited the children and descendants of Abdal Motalleb to a feast ; forty of them ...
... prophet . Three years were silently employed in these first conversions . The fourth year , Mahomet imagined he might publicly announce his mission ; he invited the children and descendants of Abdal Motalleb to a feast ; forty of them ...
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... prophet , and had bound themselves to him secretly by an oath the year before . Mahomet had ordered his partizans to retire to this city . He was received as a sovereign with transports of joy , and built a house and a mosque . It is ...
... prophet , and had bound themselves to him secretly by an oath the year before . Mahomet had ordered his partizans to retire to this city . He was received as a sovereign with transports of joy , and built a house and a mosque . It is ...
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... prophet . Mahomet returned to Medina , and his health soon after began to decline . He had always felt the effects of the poison which had been given him by a Jew , about three years before , but they were then renewed with more ...
... prophet . Mahomet returned to Medina , and his health soon after began to decline . He had always felt the effects of the poison which had been given him by a Jew , about three years before , but they were then renewed with more ...
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... prophet , " we may assert , that ambition was the main - spring of all his actions , that his plans ex- perienced variations according to circumstances , and became more extensive in proportion as those became more favourable . We may ...
... prophet , " we may assert , that ambition was the main - spring of all his actions , that his plans ex- perienced variations according to circumstances , and became more extensive in proportion as those became more favourable . We may ...
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