 | Roy Floyd Dibble - Islam - 1926 - 266 pages
...distance of twelve centuries, I darkly contemplate his shade through a cloud of religious incense; and, could I truly delineate the portrait of an hour, the fleeting resemblance would not equally apply to the solitary of Mount Hira, to the preacher of Mecca, and to... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - History - 1987 - 260 pages
...distance of twelve centuries, I darkly contemplate his shade through a cloud of religious incense; and, could I truly delineate the portrait of an hour, the fleeting resemblance would not equally apply to the solitary of mount Hera, to the preacher of Mecca, and to... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - English prose literature - 1989 - 276 pages
...delineate the portrait of an hour, the fleeting resemblance would not equally apply to the solitary of mount Hera, to the preacher of Mecca, and to the conqueror of Arabia. (5 :400) Even Mohammed's contemporaries, assuming that any of them were disinterested observers, would... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - History - 1998 - 1094 pages
...distance of twelve centuries, I darkly contemplate his shade through a cloud of religious incense; and, could I truly delineate the portrait of an hour, the fleeting resemblance would not equally apply to the solitary of mount Hera, to the preacher of Mecca, and to... | |
 | David Womersley - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 472 pages
...the distance of twelve centuries, I darkly contemplate his shade through a doud of religious incense; and could I truly delineate the portrait of an hour, the fleeting resemblance would not equally apply to the soluary of mount Hera, to the preacher of Mecca, and to... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1862 - 510 pages
...could present would be but ' the portrait of an ' hour,' and ' would not apply equally to the solitary of Mount ' Hera, to the preacher of Mecca, and to the conqueror of Arabia.'* De Perceval has virtually shirked the question altogether by giving only an effective group of traits,... | |
 | E. Lethbridge - 1876 - 476 pages
...twelve centuries," says Gibbon, " I darkly contemplate his shade through a cloud of religious incense; and could I truly delineate the portrait of an hour, the fleeting resemblance would not equally apply to the solitary of Mount Hera, to the preacher of Mecca, and to... | |
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I been intimately conversant with the son of Abdallah, the task would still be difficult, and the success uncertain : at the distance of twelve centuries, I darkly contemplate his shade through a cloud of religious incense ; and could I truly delineate... 
