"Alcoran" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the course of these troubles, the emperors of Blefusca did frequently expostulate by their ambassadors, accusing us of making a schism in religion, by offending against a fundamental doctrine of our great prophet Lustrog, in the fifty-fourth chapter of the Blundecral (which is their Alcoran). This, however, is thought to be a mere strain upon the text; for the words are these: 'that all true believers break their eggs at the convenient end.' And which is the convenient end, seems, in my humble opinion ...
— Gulliver's Travels - into several remote nations of the world • Jonathan Swift
... me, as Muftis can, To recite the Alcoran; Well I love the meaning sweet,— I tread the book beneath ...
— Poems - Household Edition • Ralph Waldo Emerson
... their ambassadors, accusing us of making a schism in religion, by offending against a fundamental doctrine of our great prophet Lustrog, in the fifty-fourth chapter of the Blundecral (which is their Alcoran)[24] This, however, is thought to be a mere strain upon the text; for the words are these: That all true believers break their eggs at the convenient end. And which is the convenient end, seems, in my humble opinion, ...
— Gulliver's Travels - Into Several Remote Regions of the World • Jonathan Swift |
