 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 756 pages
...lawful for men of every other religion, and for Christians among others, to make war upon Mahometan*, simply as Mahometans, as men obliged by their own...wait till opportunity shall promise them success. JOHNSON. Line 33. this dear expedience.] For expedition. WARE. 35. And many limits — ] Limits for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...is by the lan-s of self-defence, lawful for men of every other religion, and lor Christians am en 7 others, to make war upon Mahometans, simply as Mahometans,...-till opportunity shall promise them success. Notes upon Shakspeare, vol. 5, p. 254. That conduct which betrays designs of future hostility, if it does... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 356 pages
...determined. If it be part of the religion of the Mahometans to extirpate by the sword all other religions, it is, by the laws of self-defence, lawful for men...wait till opportunity shall promise them success. Johnson. • Since my insroduction of this corrupted line, I have discovered she true sense of is.... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 348 pages
...determined. If it be part of the religion of the Mahometans to extirpate by the sword all other religions, it is, by the laws of self-defence, lawful for men...wait till opportunity shall promise them success. i Johnson. * Since my introduction of this corrupted line, I have discovered the true iciue of it.... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1820 - 636 pages
...others, to make war upon Mahometans, ' simply as Mahometans, as men obliged by their own prin' ciples to make war upon Christians, and only lying in wait ' till opportunity shall promise them success.' Mr. Mills quotes a similar passage from Lord Bacon, in which that great man does not scruple to intimate... | |
 | 1821 - 498 pages
..." If it be a part of the religion of the Mahometans, to extirpate by the sword all other Religions, it is, by the laws of self-defence, lawful for men...wait till opportunity shall promise them success." This doctrine is both unjustifiable in itself, and inapplicable to the Crusades. None of them were... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 456 pages
...determined. If it be part of the religion of the Mahometans to extirpate by the sword all other religions, it is, by the laws of self-defence, lawful for men...wait till opportunity shall promise them success. JOHNSON. Upon this note Mr. Gibbon makes the following observation : " If the reader will turn to the... | |
 | Charles Mills - 1822 - 468 pages
...vital principle of the Muhammodan religion, then also a right of hostility would have been raised.* But before • * This is Johnson's argument. " The lawfulness...seek upon " all occasions to enlarge their dominions, crcscunl argu" menta justl melm, all particular fears do grow and mul" tiply out of the contemplation... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 372 pages
...determined. If it be part of the religion of the Mahometans to extirpate by the sword all other religions, it is, by the laws of self-defence, lawful for men...wait till opportunity shall promise them success. JOHNSON. (Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross We are impressed and engag'd to fight,) Forthwith... | |
 | Archibald Joseph Dunn - 1877 - 408 pages
..." If it be a part of the religion of the Mahometans to extirpate by the sword all other religions, it is by the laws of self-defence, lawful for men...wait till opportunity shall promise them success, "f Finlay says : " The Mahometan Jurisprudence declares distinctly that there is a different civil... | |
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The lawfulness and justice of the holy wars have been much disputed; but perhaps there is a principle on which the question may be easily determined. If it be part of the religion of the Mahometans, to extirpate by the sword all other religions, it is,... 
