34/43 * * * He said that the acuteness and violence of his sufferings were necessarily in the proportion of those honors with which it had ever pleased the hand of Omnipotence to distinguish its peculiar favorites." Price, vol.i.p. 13 .-- M] [Footnote 151: The Greeks and Latins have invented and propagated the vulgar and ridiculous story, that Mahomet's iron tomb is suspended in the air at Mecca, (Laonicus Chalcondyles, de Rebus Turcicis, l. 66,) by the action of equal and potent loadstones, (Dictionnaire de Bayle, Mahomet, Rem.Ee. Ff.) Without any philosophical inquiries, it may suffice, that, 1. |