 His lieutenants, on the shores of the Red Sea, the Ocean, and the Gulf of Persia, were saluted by the acclamations of a faithful people ; and the ambassadors who knelt before the throne of Medina were as numerous (says the Arabian proverb) as the dates...  A grammar of modern geography. [With] Praxis - Page 240de Aaron Arrowsmith - 1832Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Edward Gibbon - 1789 - 424 pages
...faithful people; and the amballadors who knelt before the throne of Medina, were as numerous (fays the Arabian proverb) as the dates that fall from the maturity of a palm-tree. The nation fubmitted to the God and the fceptre of IVlahomet: the opprobrious name of tribute was abolifhed... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1813 - 528 pages
...faithful people; and the ambaffadors who knelt before the throne of Medina, were as numerous (fays .the Arabian proverb) as the dates that fall from the maturity of a palm tree. The nation fubmitted to the god and the fceptre of Mahomet: the opprobrious name of tribute... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1831 - 362 pages
...faithful people, and the ambassadors who knelt before the throne of Medinah, were as numerous, says the Arabian proverb, as the dates that fall from the maturity of a palmtree. The nation submitted to the God and the sceptre of Mohammed; the opprobrious name of tribute was abolished;... | |
 | Aaron Arrowsmith - 1831 - 970 pages
...divided, or subdued, severally admitted, and thus increased the power of Mahomet. The temples and idols of the country were every where destroyed, and the...this successful impostor. On this occasion he took to this, the people had been accustomed to compute from the commencement of a particular war, the day... | |
 | Aaron Arrowsmith - 1839 - 880 pages
...divided, or subdued, severally submitted, and thus increased the power of Mahomet. The temples and idols of the country were every where destroyed, and the...he took with him all his wives, fifteen in number, to this, the people had been accustomed to compute from the commencement of a particular war, the day... | |
 | Edward Bishop Elliott - 1847 - 606 pages
...picturesque. Hence when we read in his history of ambassadors gathering "as numerous, according to the Arab proverb, as the dates that fall from the maturity of a palm-tree," a reader acquainted with his manner may infer pretty surely that the scene is Arabian. And, again,... | |
 | Mystery - 1850 - 464 pages
...faithful people, and the ambassadors who knelt before the throne of Medina were as numerous, (says the Arabian proverb,) as the dates that fall from the maturity of a palm tree. The nation submitted to the God and the sceptre of Mahomet: the opprobrious name of tribute... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 496 pages
...faithful people ; and the ambassadors who knelt before the throne of Medina were as numerous (says the Arabian proverb) as the dates that fall from the maturity of a palm-tree. The nation submitted to the God and the sceptre of Mahomet : the opprobrious name of tribute was abolished... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1870 - 458 pages
...faithful people ; and the ambassadors who knelt before the throne of Medina, were as numerous (says the Arabian proverb) as the dates that fall from the maturity of a palm-tree. The nation submitted (AD 632) to the God and the sceptre of Mahomet : the opprobrious name of tribute was... | |
 | James H. Braund - 1870 - 524 pages
...faithful people ; and the ambassadors who knelt before the throne of Medina were as numerous [says the Arabian proverb] as the dates that fall from the maturity of a palm tree. The nation submitted to the God and the sceptre of Mahomet ; the opprobrious name of tribute... | |
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