| John William Draper - 1875 - 444 Seiten
...Islands he rode his horse into the sea, exclaiming: " Great God ! if my course were not stopped by this sea, I would still go on to the unknown kingdoms of the West, preaching the unity of thy holy name, and putting to the sword the rebellious nations who worship any other gods than thee." These Saracen... | |
| Simon Ockley - 1875 - 580 Seiten
...waves, and raising his eyes to heaven, exclaimed, " Great God ! if my course were not stopped by this sea, I would still go on, to the unknown kingdoms of the west, preaching the unity of thy holy name, and putting to the sword til* rebellious nations who worship any other gods but thee." — Millt. HeJ.... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1875 - 632 Seiten
...to heaven, exclaimed with a tone of a fanatic, " Great God ! if my course were not stopped by this sea, I would still go on, to the unknown kingdoms of the West, preaching the unity of thy holy name, and putting to the sword the rebellious nations who worship any other Gods than thee." 153 Yet this... | |
| Reginald Bosworth Smith - 1876 - 416 Seiten
...waves, and raising his eyes to heaven, he exclaimed, ' Oh Allah ! if my course were not stopped by this sea, I would still go on to the unknown kingdoms of the West, preaching the unity of Thy holy name, and putting to the sword the rebellious nations who worship other gods than Thee ! ' Before many years... | |
| Oscar Peschel - 1876 - 600 Seiten
...Eastern Africa offer food to the demons of disease : they do not eat it themselves, but place it in some footpath that a passer-by may consume it, and thus take the pestilence upon himself.*1 Of all animals serpents have been most frequently worshipped. Snake worship, or the... | |
| Marcus Dods - 1877 - 256 Seiten
...horse into the waves of the Atlantic and cried, " Great God ! if my course were not stopped by this sea, I would still go on to the unknown kingdoms of the West, preaching the unity of Thy holy name, and putting to the sword the rebellious nations who worship any other gods than Thee." Pity for the... | |
| james nisbet - 1877 - 824 Seiten
...waves, and raising his eyes to heaveu, he exclaimed, 'Oh, Allah ! if my course were not stopped by this sea, I would still go on to the unknown kingdoms of the West, preaching the unity of thy holy name, and putting to the sword the rebellious nations who worship other gods than thee'" (p. 36). In later... | |
| Julius Lloyd - 1880 - 640 Seiten
...with the religious fanaticism of the Saracens, he rode into the ocean and cried aloud, " Great God ! if my course were not stopped by the sea, I would...of the West, preaching the unity of Thy holy name, and putting to the sword the rebellious nations, who worship any gods but Thee." To secure his conquests,... | |
| 1885 - 998 Seiten
...distance from the Canary Islands, he exclaimed : Great God ! if my course were not stopped by this sea, I would still go on to the unknown kingdoms of the West, preaching the unity of thy holy name, and putting to the sword the rebellious nations who worship any other gods than thee.f Akbah perished... | |
| Philip Van Ness Myers - 1888 - 800 Seiten
...with the discords of the past all forgotten. — Introduction to Ockley's History of the Saracens. still go on to the unknown kingdoms of the West, preaching the unity of thy holy name, and putting to the sword the rebellious nations who worship any other gods than thee." (689.) It was... | |
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