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... principles and prejudices , would give him a high place as a religious man and as a sovereign . But the inhabitants ... principle of some other early Mohammedan conquerors that it was right to make war upon all idolaters , to seize their ...
... principles and prejudices , would give him a high place as a religious man and as a sovereign . But the inhabitants ... principle of some other early Mohammedan conquerors that it was right to make war upon all idolaters , to seize their ...
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... with the expec- tation of being defeated . The fanatical spirit of the Mohamme- dans , their avowed principle that it was their duty to propagate their faith in the use of all the means they HISTORY - THE MOHAMMEDAN PERIOD . 57.
... with the expec- tation of being defeated . The fanatical spirit of the Mohamme- dans , their avowed principle that it was their duty to propagate their faith in the use of all the means they HISTORY - THE MOHAMMEDAN PERIOD . 57.
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... principles of her faith . She evinced such a knowledge of business and talent for govern- ment , that her father Altumsh , when leaving Delhi to conduct the war in Malwa , appointed her to be regent in his absence . And when asked by ...
... principles of her faith . She evinced such a knowledge of business and talent for govern- ment , that her father Altumsh , when leaving Delhi to conduct the war in Malwa , appointed her to be regent in his absence . And when asked by ...
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... principles of some of these sciences under the laws of the empire , and under the patronage of Alla ud Deen , as it now is to be a professor or teacher in some of the universities under the present despotic governments of Europe . The ...
... principles of some of these sciences under the laws of the empire , and under the patronage of Alla ud Deen , as it now is to be a professor or teacher in some of the universities under the present despotic governments of Europe . The ...
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... or consulting any cazee , I have always been practising of my own accord the principles of the Prophet . " " - Gleig , Vol . I. p . 128–131 . without any inquiry into their guilt or innocence , amounting 82 INDIA , ANCIENT AND MODERN .
... or consulting any cazee , I have always been practising of my own accord the principles of the Prophet . " " - Gleig , Vol . I. p . 128–131 . without any inquiry into their guilt or innocence , amounting 82 INDIA , ANCIENT AND MODERN .
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Page 431 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all...
Page 224 - He resolved, in . the gloomy recesses of a mind 'capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance, and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those, against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together, was no protection.
Page 414 - And his disciples asked him, saying, " Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?" Jesus answered, "Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents : but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
Page 589 - Come forth out of thy royal chambers, O Prince of all the kings of the earth ! put on the visible robes of thy imperial majesty, take up that unlimited sceptre which thy almighty Father hath bequeathed thee ; for now the voice of thy bride calls thee, and all creatures sigh to be renewed.
Page 608 - When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Page 589 - For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure •offering : for my name diatt be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.
Page 589 - Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
Page 224 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
Page 609 - If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her. And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.
Page 607 - Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house ; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.