 | Edward Bishop Elliott - Bible - 1847 - 606 pages
...the true religion, and of heaven. Hence it was borne by his 1 " The injustice of Mecca and the choice of Medina transformed the citizen into a prince, the humble preacher into a leader of armies." So says Gibbon (ix. 322,) of later operating causes. 2 Ancient Universal History,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 496 pages
...Nineveh, for the destruction of the rebels whom he had condemned. The injustice of Mecca and the choice of Medina transformed the citizen into a prince, the...humble preacher into the leader of armies; but his sword was consecrated by the example of the saints ; and the same God who afflicts a sinful world with... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Caliphs - 1870 - 458 pages
...Nineveh, for the destruction of the rebels whom he had condemned. The injustice of Mecca, and the choice of Medina, transformed the citizen into a prince,...humble preacher into the leader of armies ; but his sword was consecrated by the example of the saints ; and the same God who afflicts a sinful world with... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1875 - 632 pages
...Nineveh, for the destruction of the rebels whom he had condemned. The injustice of Mecca and the choice of Medina, transformed the citizen into a prince,...humble preacher into the leader of armies ; but his sword was consecrated by the example of the saints ; and the same God who afflicts a sinful world with... | |
 | 1880 - 814 pages
...Nineveh, for the destruction of the rebels whom he liad condemned. The injustice of Mecca and the choice of Medina transformed the citizen into a prince, the...humble preacher into the leader of armies ; but his sword was consecrated by the example of the saints ; and the same God who afflicts a sinful world with... | |
 | Biography - 1880 - 812 pages
...Nineveh, for the destruction of the rebels whom he had condemned. The injustice of Mecca and the choice of Medina transformed the citizen into a prince, the humble preacher into the leader of armies ; bat his sword was consecrated by the example of the saints ; and the same God who afflicts a sinful... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...Nineveh, for the destruction of the rebels he had condemned. The injustice of Mecca, and the choice re original, and more elegant, than that of almost any other modern who writes in Latin, sword was consecrated by the example of the saints; and the same God who afflicts a sinful world with... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1923 - 578 pages
...Nineveh, for the destruction of the rebels whom he had condemned. The injustice of Mecca and the choice of Medina transformed the citizen into a prince, the humble preacher into the leader o: armies ; but his sword was consecrated by the example of the saints ; jind thejamcj^"^ w1'" affUctjL*... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1901 - 570 pages
...Nineveh, for the destruction of the rebels whom he had condemned. The injustice of Mecca and the choice of Medina transformed the citizen into a prince, the...humble preacher into the leader of armies ; but his sword was consecrated by the example of the saints; and the same God who afflicts a sinful world with... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - World history - 1906 - 612 pages
...Nineveh, for the destruction of the rebels whom he had condemned. The injustice of Mecca and the choice of Medina transformed the citizen into a prince, the...humble preacher into the leader of armies; but his sword was consecrated by the example of the saints; and the same God who afflicts a sinful world with... | |
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Nineveh, for the destruction of the rebels whom he had condemned. The injustice of Mecca and the choice of Medina transformed the citizen into a prince, the humble preacher into the leader of armies; but his... 
