| George Gregory - 1795 - 582 strani
...of the importance and juftice of the end. Even in a conqueror or a priell, I can furprife a word Qr action of unaffected humanity ; and the decree of Mahomet, that in the fale pf captives the mothers fhould never be feparated from their children, tnay fufpend or moderate... | |
| Thomas Thornton - 1807 - 502 strani
...paradise. (Tab. Gen. V. ip 199.) " The decree of Mahomet," says Gibbon, (Rom. Hist. V. ix. p. 323.) " that, in the sale of captives, the mothers should never be separated from their children, may suspend or moderate the censure of the historian." 340 of the marriage portion and other... | |
| George Stanley Faber - 1808 - 304 strani
...credulity of his proselytes. — In the support of truth the arts of fraud and fiction may be deemed less criminal ; and he would have started at the foulness...satisfied of the importance and justice of the end."* Such is the unwilling confession even of his apologist Mr. Gibbon : nor was perfidy the exclusive characteristic... | |
| George Stanley Faber - 1808 - 592 strani
...credulity of his proselytes. — In the support of truth the arts of fraud and fiction may be deemed Jess criminal ; and he would have started at the foulness...satisfied of the importance and justice of the end."* Such is the unwilling confession even of his apologist Mr. Gibbon : nor was perfidy the exclusive characteristic... | |
| George Stanley Faber - 1808 - 596 strani
...of truth the arts of fraud andjiction may be deemed less criminal ; and he would have started at ihe foulness of the means, had he not been satisfied of the importance and justice of the end."* Such is the unwilling confession even of his apologist Mr. Gibbon : nor was perfidy the exclusive characteristic... | |
| Thomas Thornton - 1809 - 520 strani
...and be no longer excluded from the enjoyment of paradise*. " The decree of Mahomet," says Gibbon, " that, in the sale of captives, the mothers should never be separated from their children, may suspend or moderate the cen-- . sure of the historian-f-." Marriage is considered by... | |
| Thomas Thornton - 1809 - 508 strani
...be no longer excluded from the enjoyment of paradise*. " The decree of Mahomet," savs */ Gibbon, " that, in the sale of captives, the mothers should never be separated from their children, may suspend or moderate the censure of the historian-f -. "" Marriage is considered by the... | |
| 1810 - 928 strani
...and be no longer ex. eluded from the enjoyment of paradise. " The decree of Mahomet," says Gibbon, " that, in the sale of captives, the mothers should never be separated from their children, may suspend or moderate the censure of the historian." Marriage is considered by the Turks... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1810 - 960 strani
...and be no longer ex. eluded from the enjoyment of paradise. " The decree of Mahomet," says Gibbon, " that, in the sale of captives, the mothers should never be separated from their children, may suspend or moderate the censure of the historian." Marriage is considered by the Turks... | |
| Thomas Zouch, Francis Wrangham - 1820 - 558 strani
...be allowed, not unfrequently exercised much lenity in their military expeditions. Humanity dictated the decree of Mahomet, that ' in the sale of captives the mothers should never be separated from their children.' What can breathe a more benevolent solicitude to alleviate the miseries of war, than the... | |
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