...idea of Mohammed and Mohammedanism : — Gibbon describes the Koran, with its dark sentences, as an " endless incoherent rhapsody of fable and precept and...which seldom excites a sentiment or an idea, which somelimes crawls in the dust, and is sometimes lost in the clouds." Gibbon states : " In the exercise...

...ignorance is incapable of comparing the productions of human genius. The harmony and copiousness of the style will not reach, in a version, the European infidel...impatience the endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, precept, and declamation, which seldom excites a sentiment or an idea, which sometimes crawls in the...

...ignorance is incapable of comparing the productions of human genius. The harmony and copiousness of the style will not reach, in a version, -the European...impatience the endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, precept, and declamation, which seldom excites a sentiment or an idea, which sometimes crawls in the...

...an eloquent and by no means prejudiced writer (Gibbon) as " an endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, precept, and declamation, which seldom excites a sentiment or an idea ; which sometime* crawls in the dust and is sometimes lost in the clouds." potentates, to invite them to embrace...

...the music of sounds, and whose ignorance is incapable of comparing the productions of human genins. The harmony and copiousness of style will not reach, in a version, the European infidtl . he will peruse with impatience the endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, and precept, and...

...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, tho European infidel . he will peruse with impatience tho endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, and...

...read. Gibbon calls the Koran " a glorious testimony to the unity of God," but also, very properly, an "endless, incoherent rhapsody of fable and precept...and declamation, which seldom excites a sentiment or idea, which sometimes crawls in the dust, and is sometimes lost 1 Muir (Life, II. 313, 278) and Stanley...

...word. A critic like Goethe seems charmed with its sublimity, while another, such as Gibbon, speaks of "the endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, and precept,...sometimes crawls in the dust, and is sometimes lost in the clouds."1 Room enough here, at least, for riddle and enigma. Take it altogether, and the case is absolutely...

...which, as Macaulay says, Voltaire decried Ezekiel in the same narrow spirit as he did Shakespeare. "The harmony and copiousness of style will not reach...with impatience the endless incoherent rhapsody of faith and precept and declamation, which seldom excites a sentiment or an idea, which sometimes crawls...

...centuries admired the sublime simplicity of the Gospel. " He will peruse with impatience hi the Koran the endless incoherent rhapsody of fable and precept, and declamation which seldom excites 1 Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Raman Empire, Vol. VI., p. 358. a sentiment or an idea, which sometimes...