Islam in English LiteraturePrinted at the American Press, 1939 - 258 pages |
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Page 139
... never games , never fights , never blasphemes ; is guiltless of murder ; is in- nocent of theft ; and has yet to learn that poverty is a crime , or even . a reproach ... the most glaring defect [ is ] ... the want of sincerity and good ...
... never games , never fights , never blasphemes ; is guiltless of murder ; is in- nocent of theft ; and has yet to learn that poverty is a crime , or even . a reproach ... the most glaring defect [ is ] ... the want of sincerity and good ...
Page 210
... never completed - aside from the song , " Mahomet's Gesang , " and several fragments of scenes . Says Goethe , " the plan occurred to me of taking the life of Mahomet , whom I had never been able to think an impostor , for a dramatic ...
... never completed - aside from the song , " Mahomet's Gesang , " and several fragments of scenes . Says Goethe , " the plan occurred to me of taking the life of Mahomet , whom I had never been able to think an impostor , for a dramatic ...
Page 229
... never had ; sentenced by a law to which they were never amenable ; executed for not obeying a precept which they never heard . Carlyle shows , in respect to Mahomet , that he had a true and an earnest heart ; that because he did not ...
... never had ; sentenced by a law to which they were never amenable ; executed for not obeying a precept which they never heard . Carlyle shows , in respect to Mahomet , that he had a true and an earnest heart ; that because he did not ...
Contents
THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE | 1 |
THE AGE OF DRYDEN | 19 |
THE AGE OF POPE | 55 |
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