The Modern Part of an Universal History: From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, Volumen1

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C. Bathurst, J. F. and C. Rivington, A. Hamilton, T. Payne, T. Longman, S. Crowder, B. Law, T. Becket, J. Robson, F. Newbery, G. Robinson, T. Cadell, J. and T. Bowles, S. Bladon, J. Murray, and W. Fox., 1780
 

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Página 120 - And soon after the prophet sent 3000 men against the Grecian forces, to revenge the death of one of his ambassadors who, being sent to the governor of Bosra on the same errand as those who went to the abovementioned princes, was slain by an Arab of the tribe of Ghassan, at Muta, a town in the territory of Balka, in Syria, about three days journey eastward from Jerusalem, near which town they encountered.
Página 181 - God is great. There is no God but God. Mohammed is the apostle of God.
Página 244 - Sabbath ; or particularly to abstain from work, after they have performed their devotions. Some, however, from a tradition of their prophet, are of opinion that works of charity, and religious exercises, which may draw down the blessing of GOD, are recommended in this passage.
Página 237 - Lord hath forbidden me ; and the third was blank. If the first was drawn, they looked on it as an approbation of the enterprise in question ; if the second, they made a contrary conclusion ; but if the third happened to be drawn, they mixed them and drew over again, till a decisive answer was given by one of the others.
Página 230 - ... or of the purest musk; or, as others will have it, of saffron; that its stones are pearls and jacinths, the walls of its buildings enriched with gold and silver, and that the trunks of all its trees are of gold; among which the most remarkable is the tree called Tuba, or the tree of happiness.
Página 27 - READ in the name of thy Lord, who hath created all things; who hath created man of congealed blood. Read, by thy most beneficent Lord; who taught the use of the pen; who teacheth man that which he knoweth not.
Página 219 - ... was, by the ministry of the angel Gabriel, sent down to the lowest heaven, in the month of Ramadan, on the night of power: from whence Gabriel revealed it to...
Página 157 - This is an impiety. On this day, woe be unto those who have apostatized from their religion ; therefore fear not them, but fear me. This day have I perfected your religion for you, and have completed my mercy upon you ; and I have chosen for you Islam, to be your religion.
Página 48 - drank of the wine, thy nation would have deviated " from the right path, and consequently in their " enterprises have proved unsuccessful.
Página 60 - And call to mind how the unbelievers plotted against thee, that they might either detain thee in bonds, or put thee to death, or expel thee the city; but God laid a plot against them ; and God is the best layer of plots.

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