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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER L: Description Of Arabia And Its Inhabitants
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* Note: The whole book has since been recovered in the Ethiopic language,--and has been edited and translated by Archbishop Lawrence, Oxford, 1881--M.] [Footnote 82: The seven precepts of Noah are explained by Marsham, (Canon Chronicus, p.

154-180,) who adopts, on this occasion, the learning and credulity of Selden.] [Footnote 83: The articles of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, &c., in the Bibliotheque of D'Herbelot, are gayly bedecked with the fanciful legends of the Mahometans, who have built on the groundwork of Scripture and the Talmud.] [Footnote 84: Koran, c.

7, p.

128, &c., c.

10, p.


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