 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1800 - 482 pages
...battle, his sins are forgiven : at the day of judgment his Wounds shall be resplendent as vermilion and odoriferous as musk; and the loss of his limbs shall be supplied by the wings of angels and cherubim." Fired by representations such as these, and by the powerful temptations of a sensual paradise,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 488 pages
...his "sins are forgiven: at the day of judgment, his wounds shall " be resplendent as vermillion and odoriferous as musk ; " and the loss of his limbs shall be supplied by the wings of "angels and cherubim." The intrepid souls of the Arabs were fired with enthusiasm : the picture of the invisible... | |
 | John Evans - Religions - 1807 - 344 pages
...forgiven at the day of judgment ; his wounds shall be resplendent as vermilion, and odoriferous as musk, the loss of his limbs shall be supplied by the wings of angels and cherubims." . Mr. Clarke, in his answer to the question, Why are you a Christian'? already mentioned, has these... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 596 pages
...battle, his sins are forgiven : at the day of judgment his wounds shall be resplendent as vermilion and odoriferous as musk : and the loss of his limbs shall be supplied by the wings of angels and cherubim."^[ Thus was the power of Mo~ * Hist, of Dccl. and Fall, VoL 11. p. 285, 286. f Acts vi"-... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 304 pages
...battle, his sins are forgiven : at the day of judgment his wounds shall be resplendent as vermilion and odoriferous as musk : and the loss of his limbs shall be supplied by the wings of angels and cherubim."^[ Thus was the power of Mo* Hist, of Decl. and Fall, VoL ix. p. 285, 286. f Ac" vi"- 5l... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 700 pages
...forgiven at the day of judgment ; his wounds shall be resplendant as vermilion, and odoriferous as musk, the loss of his limbs shall be supplied by the wings of angels and cherubim." Who would not die to be acquitted at the bar of heaven ? Who would not prefer a night in... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1810 - 436 pages
...battle, his sins are forgiven at the day of judgment ; his wounds shall be resplendent as vermilion, and odoriferous as musk; and the loss of his limbs shall be supplied by the wings of angels and cherubim." Gibbon, vol. iX p. 256. * Ch. iii. 54 f Ch. iv. p. 63. t Gibbon, vol. is. p. 225. « Mod.... | |
 | William Jones - Albigenses - 1816 - 500 pages
...battle, his sins are forgiven ; at the day of judgment his wounds shall be resplendant as vermillion, and odoriferous as musk ; and the loss of his limbs shall...be supplied by the wings of angels and cherubims." disposition to turn his arms against the Roman empire j but his followers were discouraged. They alledged... | |
 | William Jones - Albigenses - 1816 - 492 pages
...his sins are forgiven ; at the day of judgment his wounds shall be resplendant as vt i million, and odoriferous as musk ; and the loss of his limbs shall...be supplied by the wings of angels and cherubims." Till the age of sixty-three, the strength of Mahomet was equal to the fatigues of his station. He had,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 488 pages
...forgiven : at the day of judgment his " wounds shall be resplendent as vermillion and odori'• ferous as musk ; and the loss of his limbs shall be " supplied by the wings of angels and cherubim." The intrepid souls of the Arabs were fired with enthusiasm : the picture of the invisible... | |
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God, a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months of fasting or prayer : whosoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven : at the day of judgment his wounds shall be resplendent as vermilion, and odoriferous as musk ; and the loss of his limbs... 
