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. Selim and Zaida: With Other Poems.. - Pągina 109per John Boyd Greenshields - 1800 - 154 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Edward Gibbon - 1789 - 424 pągines
...was checked by the profpect of a boundlefs qcean. He fpurred his horle into the Wvaves, and rdifing his eyes to heaven,, exclaimed with the tone of a fanatic: "Great God! if my *' courfs; were not flopped by this fea, I would ftill " ftill go on, to the unknown kingdoms of the... | |
| 1905 - 606 pągines
...recorded by Gibbon on various authorities which we need not recapitulate. ' He spurred,' says Gibbon, ' his ' horse into the waves, and raising his eyes to heaven, ' exclaimed with the tones of a fanatic, " Great God ! if my ' course were not stopped by this sea, I would still go on... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 526 pągines
...gold. The career, though not the zeal, of Akbah, Was checked by the prospect of a boundless ocean. He spurred his horse into the waves, and raising his eyes to heaven, exclaimed with the tone of •& £anafis<1 " Great " God ! if my course were not stopped by this sea, " I would'still go on, to... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 488 pągines
...gold. ThecareeFj though not the. zeal, of Akhah was checked by the prospect of a boundless ocean. He spurred his horse into the waves, and raising his...were not stopped by this sea, I would still go on, to fi the unknown kingdoms of the West, preaching the " unity of thy holy name, and putting to the sword... | |
| George Wilson Bridges - 1828 - 530 pągines
...Atlantic, the Mahometan conqueror, inspired with the idea of a Western world, exclaimed in the language of a fanatic, " Great God ! if my course were not stopped by the sea, I would still go on to the unknown kingdoms of the West, preaching the unity of Thy holy name,... | |
| Charles Greenstreet Addison - 1838 - 524 pągines
...subjugated by the Saracens, and the Caliph of Damascus penetrating to the verge of the Atlantic ocean spurred his horse into the waves, and raising his eyes to heaven, exclaimed, " Great God, if my course was not stopped by this sea, I would still go on to the unknown kingdoms... | |
| Charles Greenstreet Addison - 1838 - 290 pągines
...subjugated by the Saracens, and the Caliph of Damascus penetrating to the verge of the Atlantic ocean spurred his horse into the waves, and, raising his eyes to heaven, exclaimed, " Great God! if my course was not stopped by this sea, I would still go on to the unknown kingdoms... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 830 pągines
...horse into the waves, he exclaimed, as he raised his eyes to Heaven in a transport of fanaticism, " Great God ! if my course were not stopped by this sea, I would still go on to the unknown regions of the West, preaching the unity of Thy holy name, and putting to the sword the rebellious... | |
| 1870 - 494 pągines
...verge of the Atlantic, and according to some accounts he rode his horse into the waves and exclaimed, " If my course were not stopped by this sea, I would still go on to the unknown regions of the West preaching the unity of GOD'S holy Name, and putting to the sword the rebellious... | |
| 1850 - 546 pągines
...day. Akbah swept across the whole north shore of Africa, and came as far as the Atlantic, where he spurred his horse into the waves, and, raising his eyes to heaven, said, " Great God, if my course were not stopped by this sea, I would still go on to the unknown kingdoms... | |
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