...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,...sentiment or an idea, which sometimes crawls in the dust, 197 and is sometimes lost in the clouds. The divine attributes exalt the fancy of the Arabian missionary...

...Diicourse, p. 5f> — 70. 254 CHAP, norance is incapable of comparing the productions of L human genius93. The harmony and copiousness of style will not reach,...endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, and precept, and dednmation, which seldom excites a sentiment or an idea, which sometimes crawls in the dust, and is...

...bavard caresse dans ses bras. La Pucelle d'Orleans, Chant 17me. Gibbon well denominates the Koran, " an endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, and precept,...sentiment or an idea, which sometimes crawls in the dust, Tmd is sometimes lost in the clouds." Chap. 1. p. 269. Yet it is a superior composition to any work...

...But within a few pages he afterwards admits, that in a version of the Koran, " the European infidel will peruse with impatience the endless incoherent rhapsody of fable and precept, and deand so debased by impurity, the effect upon the mind is obvious. Though all men probably can feel...

...assert, that God alone could dictate so extraordinary a performance. The harmony and copiousness of the style will not reach, in a version, the European infidel...impatience the endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, history, precept, and declamation. Theology and morality are interspersed among trivial matters ; and...

...of » single passage, and presumes to assert God alone could dictate this incomparable performance. The harmony and copiousness of style will not reach...impatience the endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, history, precept, and declamation. Theology and morality are interspersed among trivial matters : and...

...But within a few pages he afterwards admits, that in a version of the Koran, " the European infidel will peruse with impatience the endless incoherent...and precept, and declamation, which seldom excites a scuti ment or an idea; which sometimes crawls in the dust, and is sometimes lost in the clonds.'' (History,...

...all credible history. and whose ignorance is incapable of comparing the productions of human genius. The harmony and copiousness of style will not reach...and declamation, which seldom excites a sentiment or idea, which sometimes crawls in the dust, and is sometimes lost in the clouds. The divine attributes...

...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 : be will peruse with impatience the endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, and precept, and declamation,...

...forming an "endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, and precept, and declamation, which seldom excite a sentiment or an idea, which sometimes crawls in the dust, and is sometimes lost in. the clouds."f Though excessive artfulness b,e sometimps hid under the veil of mysticism, yet, compared...