 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 716 pages
...number of words and letters is the same in all, viz. 77,639 words, and 323,015 letters. The Alcoran is allowed to be written with the utmost elegance and purity of language, in the dialect of the Koreishites, the most noble and polite of all the Arabian*, but with some mixture of other dialects.... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1810 - 548 pages
...Arabic word aynt, signifying signs or wanders. There are other divisions for particular uses. The Koran is universally allowed to be written with the utmost...Koreish, the most noble and polite of all the Arabians. The general design of the Koran was to unite the professors 'of the three different religions then... | |
 | Richard Renshaw - 1813 - 218 pages
...thirst of Ishmael. It lies in lat. 21. 45. N. 1on. 40. 55. E. — The Alcoran; or, Mahometan-Gospel, is universally allowed to be written with the utmost...the tribe of Koreish, the most noble and polite of .ill the Arabians; but with some mixture, though very rarely, of other dialects. It is confessedly... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 432 pages
...number of words and letters i* the same in all, viz. 77,639 words, and 323,015 letters. The Alcoran is allowed to be written with the utmost elegance and purity of language, in the dialect of the Koreishites, the most noble and polite of all the Arabians, but with some mixture of other dialects.... | |
 | 1825 - 538 pages
...chapter seem to be there written by a Jewish scribe, for Coh yaas, ie Thus he commanded. The Koran is universally allowed to be written with the utmost...noble and polite of all the Arabians, but with some mix"V. Baxtorf. Lexicon Rabbin. See also Schickardi Bechinat happenishim, p. 62, &c. "Golius in append,... | |
 | Francis Sellon White - 1827 - 608 pages
...number of words and letters is the same, in all, viz : 77,639 words, and 323,015 letters. The Koran is universally allowed to be written with the utmost...purity of language, in the dialect of the tribe of Koruish, the most noble and polite of all the Arabians, and is confessedly the standard of the Arabic... | |
 | Burton W. Carr - 1829 - 316 pages
...number of words and letters is the same in all, viz: 77,639 words, and 323,015 letters. The Alcoran is allowed to be written with the utmost elegance and purity of language, in the dialect of the Korashites, the most noble and polite of all the Arabians, but with some mixture of other dialects.... | |
 | Joseph Timothy Haydn - 1841 - 586 pages
...poison and died, August 1783. ALCORAN. The book which contains the revelation and credenda of Mahomet : it is confessedly the standard of the Arabic tongue, and as the Mahometans believe, inimitable by any human pen ; hence they assume its divine origin. It is the common... | |
 | Edward William Lane - 1843 - 336 pages
...intelligent confess has not been communicated to any mortal, their prophet only excepted. *|[ 3. The Kur-an is universally allowed to be written with the utmost...purity of language, in the dialect of the tribe of Kureysh, the most noble and polite of all the Arabs, but with some mixture, though very rarely, of... | |
 | George Palmer Putnam - 1851 - 752 pages
...poison and died, August 1783. ALCORAN. The book which contains the revelation and credenda of Mahomet: it is confessedly the standard of the Arabic tongue, and as the Mahometans believe, inimitable by any human pen ; hence they assume its divine origin. It is the common... | |
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Koreish, the most noble and polite of all the Arabians, but with some mixture, though very rarely, of other dialects. It is confessedly the standard of the Arabic tongue... 
