. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. named Zobias,he traveled extensivelythroughout Arabia; during which time heacquired valuable knowledge, which, it maywell be supposed, served
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. named Zobias,he traveled extensivelythroughout Arabia; during which time heacquired valuable knowledge, which, it maywell be supposed, served him in good steadin the later years of his eventful life. In his varying fortunes he was at one timea shepherd near Mecca; subsequently alinen trader, and, a little later, was in theemploy of a wealthy widow named he married when about twenty-fiveyears of age, she being fifteen years hissenior. Through this marriage he had fourdaughters and two sons, and with his familyhe passed ten years of peaceful life, the love of meditation growing upon him to that extent, however, that atforty he was in the habit of resorting to a solitary cave at MountHara, where he gave himself up to religious meditation. It was atime in the history of Arabia when reform was needed. Throughtyranny and conquest in the surrounding nations, his country wasbeing made the refuge of the religiously oppressed. Hither came and with the varyingthe inauguration of a. MOHAMMED, Founder of the Mohammedaa Religion the Jews, the worshipers of lire anil of idols;beliefs and contentions the time was ripe forreform that should bring order out of chaos. In his solitude, Mohammed i,ave himself >ip to reflection, prayingthat he might become thi instrumentality whereby the people shouldbe saved from their idolatries. While he meditated thus he passedinto a convulsion, when an angel appeared to him and commandedhim to read. In that condition, it is claimed, he saw and read thedecrees of God which he afterwa
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