...exhausted by the Persian war, and the church was distracted by the Nestorian and Monophysite sects, Mahomet, with the sword in one hand and the koran in the other, erected his throne on the ruins CHAP, of Christianity and of Rome. The genius of the Arabian L' prophet,...

...results of northern poverty pressing on southern plenty, nor do they furnish an example of civilized discipline overcoming barbaric valour. The warriors...to convert by subduing mankind, and win the houris ef Paradise by imbruing their hands in the blood of the unbelievers. The ordinary motives which rouse...

...burn, like the legionary soldiers of Rome, with the love of country, nor sigh with Alexander, becanse another world did not remain to conquer. They did...Paradise by imbruing their hands in the blood of the uubelievers. The ordinary motives which rouse the ambition, or awaken the passions of men, were to...

...Genghis Khan, by the passion for conquest. They did not burn, like the legionary soldiers of Home, with the love of country, nor sigh with Alexander,...to convert by subduing mankind, and win the houris «f Paradise by imbruing their hands in the blood of the unbelievers. The ordinary motives which rouse...

...Brahma counts not his life dear to him, but offers it cheerfully beneath the care of his god, and while the followers of Mahomet, with the sword in one hand, and the Koran in the other, are ready to brave every danger to propagate the doctrines of their leader, the disciple of the Lord...

...establishes that power by the possession of Mecca in the year 630 : from thence he pushes his dominion, with the sword in one hand and the Koran in the other, four hundred leagues towards the south and towards the east, which included the pleasant land of Judea....

...answer to these symbols. But when " the Arabian prophet" appears, who, as our historian observes, " with the sword in one hand and the Koran in the other, erects his throne on the ruin of Christianity and of Rome," we immediately recognise the resemblance...

...obedient and ardent followers. For the language of exhortation, was substituted that of command or menace. With the sword in one hand, and the Koran in the other, he called down the vengeance of heaven on the obstinacy of the unbeliever, or proclaimed the holy war...

...destinies of man, to their eyes, were inscribed on the pages of the book of the Mussulman's creed; and with the sword in one hand, and the Koran in the other, the fiery and enthusiastic Arab, neither baffled nor deterred by insult or opposition, by difficulty...

...world: on the abstraction of that influence, they have withered and died. The Mussulmans entered India with the sword in one hand, and the Koran in the other, and commenced their career by violating whatever was deemed most sacred I among the conquered. We apprehend,...