rity of one or the other of the two first-mentioned authors,
After this expression of obligation, a few remarks may not be inapplicable respecting the conduct of the work. A strict regard has been paid to accuracy; the mistakes of former[1] writers are carefully avoided, no exaggeration, or attempts at merely exciting ridicule or prejudice are here employed.
- ↑ The following are instances of mis-statement, now universally exploded,—that Mohammed was of obscure origin, whereas the contrary is the fact; the story of the tame pigeon, which whispered the commands of God in his ear; his being subject to epilepsy, and pretending that the attacks of the disorder were illapses of the Spirit, and that his mortal part strained to the height
"In that celestial colloquy divine,
Dazzled and spent, sunk down and sought repair."That he had difficulty in persuading his wife to embrace his Religion; that he attacked the Meccans merely under pretence of their having broken the treaty; that he forcibly despoiled some orphans of their house, to erect a mosque in Medina; that his coffin was suspended by magnets in the air at Mecca, &c.
