 | Steven Fraser - 2008 - 230 ページ
...moral order and social fabric which is inviolable and cannot be infringed. And now, to beauty, that "outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused," as Gibbon once unkindly put it. We live in what some consider to be a culture obsessed with physical... | |
 | M.P. Singh - 2005 - 324 ページ
...supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears." — Edgar Allen Poe "Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused." — Edward Gibbon "The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness."... | |
 | Frederick Quinn - 2007 - 232 ページ
...historical commentary on Islam in its time: According to the tradition of his companions, Mohammed was distinguished by the beauty of his person, an...commanding presence, his majestic aspect, his piercing eyes, his gracious smile, his flowing beard, his countenance that painted every sensation of the soul,... | |
 | 1788 - 534 ページ
...defpifed, except by thofe to whom it has been refuftd. Before he fpoke, tho orator engaged on his fk'e the affections of a public or private audience. They applauded his commanding prefence, his majrdic ..:,i. ri, his piercing eye, his gracious fmile, his flowing beard, his countenance... | |
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Abdallah was restored to the station ot his ancestors ; and the judicious matron was content with his domestic virtues, till, in the fortieth year of his age,(68) he assumed the title of a prophet, and proclaimed the religion of the Koran. According to... 
