The harmony and copiousness of style will not reach, in a version, the 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... The History of Arabia: Ancient and Modern ... - Page 276by Andrew Crichton - 1834Full view - About this book
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 526 pages
...!•• devout Arabian, whose mind is attuned to faith '- • and rapture, whose ear is delighted by the music of sounds, and whose ignorance is incapable of comparing the productions of human genius f . The harmony and copiousness of stile will not reach, in a version, the European infidel; he will... | |
| George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 592 pages
...addressed to a devout Arabian, whose mind is attuned to faith and rapture, whose ear is delighted by the music of sounds, and whose ignorance is incapable of comparing the productions of human genius. The harmony and copiousness of style will not reach, in a version, the European infidel : he will peruse... | |
| George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 304 pages
...addressed to a devout Arabian, whose mind is attuned to faith and rapture, whose ear is delighted by the music of sounds, and whose ignorance is incapable of comparing the productions of human genius. The harmony and copiousness of style will not reach, in a version, the European infidel : he will peruse... | |
| Thomas R. Joliffe - Egypt - 1822 - 534 pages
...addressed to a devout Arabian, whose mind is attuned to faith and rapture, whose ear is delighted by the music of sounds, and whose ignorance is incapable of comparing the productions of human genius. The harmony and copiousness of style will not reach, in a version, the European infidel : he will peruse... | |
| William Henry Neale - Christianity and other religions - 1828 - 300 pages
...to the world at large, are interspersed, which form at this day the basis of all credible history. and whose ignorance is incapable of comparing the productions of human genius. The harmony and copiousness of style will not reach in a version the European infidel : he will peruse... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1830 - 442 pages
...devout Arabian, whose mind is attuned to faith and rapture, whose ear is delighted by the music ef sounds, and whose ignorance is incapable of comparing the productions of human genius. (3) The harjnony_ and copiousness of style will not reach, in a version, the European infidel: he will... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1831 - 522 pages
...addressed to a devout Arabian, whose mind is attuned to faith and rapture, whose ear is delighted by the music of sounds, and whose ignorance is incapable of comparing the productions of human genius.(93) The harmony and copiousness of style will not reach, in a version, the European infidel... | |
| Samuel Green (Baptist minister, Lion St. Chapel, Walworth.) - Islam - 1840 - 442 pages
...addressed to a devout Arabian, whose mind is attuned to faith and rapture, whose ear is delighted by the music of sounds, and whose ignorance is incapable of comparing the productions of human genius. The harmony and copiousness of style will not reach, in a version, the European infidel ; he will peruse... | |
| Samuel Green - Islam - 1840 - 430 pages
...addressed to a devout Arabian, whose mind is attuned to faith and rapture, whose ear is delighted by the music of sounds, and whose ignorance is incapable of comparing the productions of human genius. The harmony and copiousness of style will not reach, in a version, the European infidel; he will peruse... | |
| Nathan Davis - Africa, North - 1844 - 264 pages
...addressed to a devout Arabian ; whose mind is attuned to faith and rapture, whose ear is delighted by the music of sounds, and whose ignorance is incapable of comparing the productions of human, genius. The harmony and copiousness of style will not reach in a version the European infidel: he will peruse... | |
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