 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 pages
...her place?" " No, by God," said Mahomet, with an effusion of honest gratitude, " there never can be a better! she believed in me, " when men despised...wants, when I " was poor and persecuted by the world." l85 In the largest indulgence of polygamy, the founder of a »nd chilreligion and empire might aspire... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 370 pages
...her place ?"— • " No," said Mohammed, with an effusion of honest gratitude, " there never can be a better ! " She believed in me, when men despised me ; " she relieved my wants, when I was poor and tt persecuted by the world." Neither the virgin Ayesha, nor his ten widows, gave to the prophet any... | |
 | 1817 - 628 pages
...exclaimed Muhammed, there never * was a kinder or better woman. She trusted in me, when ' men mocked at and despised me : she relieved my wants, ' when I was poor and persecuted by the world : She was ' all devotion to my cause.' The state of mind out of which the fanaticism of Mohammed proceeded,... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1807 - 366 pages
...place?" — "No," said Mohammed, with an effusion of honest gratitude;, "there " never can be a befter ! She believed in me, " when men despised me ; she relieved...wants, when I was poor and persecuted by the " world." Neither the virgin Ayesha, nor his ten widows, gave to the prophet any children, and of the eight which... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 488 pages
...her place?" " No, by " God," said Mahomet, with an effusion of honest gratitude, " there never can be a better ! she believed in " me, when men despised...my wants, " when I was poor and persecuted by the world165." In the largest indulgence of polygamy, the founder of and chila religion and empire might... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1830 - 374 pages
...first wife Cadijah was old and unlovely, and that he had now a better in her place. " No, by Alia! — there never was a better — she believed in me when...wants when I was poor and persecuted by the world." The names of Smith, Hamilton, Kelly, Allen, Jackson, Rutherford, and Lord Grantham must be dear to... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1833 - 292 pages
...his first wife Cadijah was old and unlovely, and that he had now a better in her place. " No, by Alia '.—there never was a better — she believed in...wants when I was poor and persecuted by the world." The names of Smith, Hamilton, Kelly, Allen, Jackson, Rutherford, and Lord Grantham must be dear to... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1831 - 362 pages
...you a better in her place?" — 'No,' replied Mohammed, 'there never was a kinder or better woman. She believed in me when men despised me; she relieved...wants when I was poor and persecuted by the world: she was all devotion to my cause. ' of more than twenty-five years' duration, and the sunshine of prosperity... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 606 pages
...mentioned in the text, rocock's Tivtn».. p. 9. t One of hii wim, married after the death of Cadijah. she relieved my wants, when I was poor and persecuted by the world*.' " Commerce now occupied his attention, and till the age of forty nothing remarkable happened in the... | |
 | James Bell - 1836 - 690 pages
...not God given you a better in her place?" " No!" said Mahomet; " there never can be u better. Sh.T believed in me when men despised me : she relieved my wants when I wa« poor and persecuted by the world." IV. 2 F Bekr published his resolution to spread the true failli... | |
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Was she not old ?" said Ayesha, with the insolence of a blooming beauty ; "has not God given you a better in her place?" "No, by God," said Mahomet, with an effusion of honest gratitude, "there never can be a better! She believed in me when men despised... 
