Retrospective Review, Volume 3C. and H. Baldwyn, 1820 |
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... character and system which had hitherto been the subjects of indiscriminate abuse he has showed that " they were greatly deceived who imagined this faith to have been propagated by the sword alone , " and that " there was something more ...
... character and system which had hitherto been the subjects of indiscriminate abuse he has showed that " they were greatly deceived who imagined this faith to have been propagated by the sword alone , " and that " there was something more ...
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... character of the Mahometan system , its founder , and history , was extreme . Mahomet was sometimes described as a pagan deity , at other times as an idol , and scarcely ever ranked as less than a magi- cian . So far from being aware ...
... character of the Mahometan system , its founder , and history , was extreme . Mahomet was sometimes described as a pagan deity , at other times as an idol , and scarcely ever ranked as less than a magi- cian . So far from being aware ...
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... character , and actions of Mahomet . - The subject is one attended with numberless difficulties , and has accordingly been , and probably will ever continue to be , a very unsatisfactory one to those who desire to trace the springs of ...
... character , and actions of Mahomet . - The subject is one attended with numberless difficulties , and has accordingly been , and probably will ever continue to be , a very unsatisfactory one to those who desire to trace the springs of ...
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... character , design , and first progress of this singular faith , though even here , much imperfection and uncertainty must ever exist . Taking it however as it stands , with the light thrown upon it by this excellent commentator , it ...
... character , design , and first progress of this singular faith , though even here , much imperfection and uncertainty must ever exist . Taking it however as it stands , with the light thrown upon it by this excellent commentator , it ...
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... character of originality is bold and often sublime ; while an entire want of any kind of feeling , of beauty , and good taste , appears in what is borrowed from sources that , one would have thought , could not fail to capti- vate and ...
... character of originality is bold and often sublime ; while an entire want of any kind of feeling , of beauty , and good taste , appears in what is borrowed from sources that , one would have thought , could not fail to capti- vate and ...
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