...lands in the north of Arabia and the northwest of Africa acknowledged the supremacy of the Arabs who, with the sword in one hand and the Koran in the other, swept across the borders of Arabia with the cry : " There is no God but Allah, and Mahomet is his prophet."...

...the narrowness of his Grecian supporters. " Even previous," says he, " to the time when the Arabs, with the sword in one hand and the Koran in the other, overran and subdued Persia, they were the more open to settlers from the North and East, from the circumstance...

...policy. In spirit it was not very unlike the Arab invaders who centuries before had swept into Europe, the sword in one hand and the Koran in the other, to conquer and to convert. If he had only lived, we are told, his continental policy might have been the...

...exhausted by the Persian war, and the church was distracted by the Nestorian and Monophysite sects, Mahomet, with the sword in one hand and the Koran in the other, erected his throne on the ruins of Christianity and of Rome. The genius of the Arabian prophet, the...

...mighty People. Mahomet with his followers fled from the Magistrates of Mecca, — but he came back, with the sword in one hand and the Koran in the other, and the Empire of the Saracens was soon second to none on the globe. "The Young Child and his Mother"...

...mighty People. Mahomet with his followers fled from the Magistrates of Mecca, — but he came back, with the sword in one hand and the Koran in the other, and the Empire of the Saracens was soon second to none on the globe. "The Young Child and his Mother"...

...mighty People. Mahomet with his followers fled from the Magistrates of Mecca, — but he came back, with the sword in one hand and the Koran in the other, and the Empire of the Saracens was soon second to none on the globe. "The Young Child and his Mother"...

...burn, like the legionary soldiers of Rome, with the love of country, nor sigh with Alexander, becanse another world did not remain to conquer. They did...desire was felt in every heart. To rescue the Holy Sepulehre from the hands of the Infidels — to restore the heritage of Christ to his followers —...

...graphically epitomizes the de- A comp»ru«m plorable situation: "Islam, or Arab influence, advances with the sword in one hand and the Koran in the other — as it appears to us. Christianity, or European influence, advances with the sword or paper treaties...

...North Africa, and had made its descent upon Europe by crossing into Spain. Mohammedanism, which came with the sword in one hand and the Koran in the other, was not arrested until in 732 it came up against the legions of Charles Martel on the field of Tours....